富商大贾

富商大賈
fùshāngdàgǔ
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 wealthy merchants and tycoons
  2. 2 magnates

Examples

Gǔdài de fùshāngdàgǔ chángcháng zīzhù wénrén.
Wealthy merchants of antiquity often patronized scholars.
Zhè tiáo jiē cóngqián zhù de dōu shì fùshāngdàgǔ.
This street used to be home to nothing but wealthy merchants and magnates.

Tips

history
From 《史记·》 (Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, Biographies of Money-makers): once the Han unified China and lifted trade barriers, '富商大贾天下' — wealthy merchants flowed freely across the realm. The phrase still carries that classical commercial-empire flavor.
mistakes
Note reads gǔ here ('merchant'), NOT jiǎ. = jiǎ only as a surname (e.g. 贾宝玉, Jia Baoyu in 《红楼梦》); in any commercial context like 商贾 or 富商大贾 it is gǔ.

Stroke Order

shāng
jiǎ