jinshi
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 進士／进士 (jìnshì).
Noun
jinshi
- “advanced” or “entered graduate”, a scholar who had successfully passed the highest level of the Chinese imperial examinations (殿試), usually held triennially at the imperial court.
- [1976, Miyazaki, Ichisada, “The Provincial Examination and Reexamination”, in Conrad Schirokauer, transl., China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, Weatherhill, →ISBN, LCCN 75-16424, OCLC 844700629, page 47:
- Again there is the story of the experience that befell Huang Yüeh, who obtained his chin-shih during the Ch’ien-lung era (1736-96) and rose to become director of the Board of Rites (li-pu shang-shu), equivalent to a minister of education. He went into the compound to take the examination and was sitting in his cell when a girl came flitting down his lane. Her dress was extremely shabby and her hair disheveled, but her face and figure were extraordinarily beautiful.]
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Anagrams
- Shinji