贵
guì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 貴
Expensive, costing a lot. 太贵了 'too expensive!' is the first move in any bargaining; the opposite is 便宜 piányi 'cheap'. In a few polite set phrases it means 'your (honourable)': 您贵姓? is a courteous 'what is your surname?'.
Đắt, mắc: giá cao, tốn nhiều tiền. 太贵了 (đắt quá!) là câu mở đầu mỗi lần mặc cả; trái nghĩa là 便宜 piányi (rẻ). Trong vài câu lịch sự có sẵn, chữ này là lời tôn xưng “quý”: 您贵姓？ (xin hỏi quý danh?) là cách hỏi họ một cách lịch sự.
AdjectiveRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “贵” mean?
Expensive, costing a lot. 太贵了 'too expensive!' is the first move in any bargaining; the opposite is 便宜 piányi 'cheap'. In a few polite set phrases it means 'your (honourable)': 您贵姓? is a courteous 'what is your surname?'.
Is “贵” formal or informal?
贵 is generally neutral.