Definition

1. Intransitive Verb:
   • To increase in price, to become more expensive: Refers to the action of goods, services, or commodities having their monetary value raised.
   • To appreciate (in value): Can refer to an asset, like currency or real estate, increasing in worth.

Usage Examples

• Intransitive Verb:
  • Giá xăng lại lên giá vào tuần tới. (Gasoline prices will increase again next week.)
  • Đồng tiền của nước đó đang lên giá so với đô la Mỹ. (That country's currency is appreciating against the US dollar.)
  • Mọi mặt hàng thiết yếu đều lên giá sau đợt bão. (All essential goods have risen in price after the storm.)

Advanced Usage

• "lên giá chóng mặt" / "lên giá vùn vụt": To skyrocket in price, to increase very rapidly and sharply.
  • Giá nhà đất ở khu vực trung tâm thành phố lên giá chóng mặt. (Real estate prices in the city center are skyrocketing.)
• Used in economic and market contexts to describe trends of inflation, market fluctuations, or speculative bubbles.

Variants and Related Words

• Tăng giá (verb): A more direct synonym meaning "to raise the price." Often used interchangeably with "lên giá," though "tăng giá" can sometimes imply a more active decision by a seller.
• Đội giá (verb): To jack up prices, often with a negative connotation of doing so unfairly or excessively.
• Phá giá (verb): The opposite action, meaning to devalue or to lower prices drastically.
• Định giá (verb): To price, to set a price for something.
• Biến động giá (noun phrase): Price fluctuation.

Synonyms

• Tăng (to rise, to increase): A general term for increase, applicable to price, quantity, level, etc.
• Đắt lên (to become more expensive): Focuses more on the result (becoming costly for the buyer) than the action of the price rising.

Related Phrases / Idioms

• "Lên như diều gặp gió": An idiom meaning to rise rapidly or soar (like a kite catching the wind). It can be applied to prices, fame, or status.
  • Giá cổ phiếu công ty công nghệ đó lên như diều gặp gió. (That tech company's stock price is soaring like a kite in the wind.)
• "Được giá": To fetch a good price, to be sold at a favorable, high price.
  • Mùa này, thanh long được giá. (This season, dragon fruit fetches a good price.)

verb

1. to raise price; to apprecoate
   • tất cả mọi thứ đều lên giá
     everything has risen in price