verb
formal
common

Meaning of 居奇

居奇 means to hoard rare goods to sell at a profit; to speculate by creating artificial scarcity. Pronounced jū qí.

  • to hoard rare goods to sell at a profit; to speculate by creating artificial scarcity

Definitions & Examples

shāng
rén
tún
 
hōng
tái
jià
 

Unscrupulous merchants hoarded goods to corner the market and drove up prices.

Zhàn
zhēng
shí
 
yǒu
rén
móu
 
guó
nàn
cái
 

During wartime, some people profited from hoarding and made fortunes out of national calamity.

Zhèng
yán
tún
de
xíng
wéi
 

The government is cracking down severely on hoarding and speculation.

liàng
shōu
gòu
liáng
shi
 
 

He purchased large quantities of grain with the intention of hoarding it for profit.