試金石

試金石

See also: 试金石

Chinese

		to test; to try; experiment to test; to try; experiment; examination; test	metal; gold; money	rock; stone; 10 pecks
trad. (試金石)		試	金	石
simp. (试金石)		试	金	石

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìjīnshí

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄕˊ

• Min Nan (POJ): chhì-kim-chio̍h

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shìjīnshí
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄕˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhjinshy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhì-kim-chio̍h
    • Tâi-lô: tshì-kim-tsio̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chie'kimcioih
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁻⁵³ kim⁴⁴⁻²² t͡ɕioʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰi⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kim³³ t͡ɕioʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁻⁵³ kim⁴⁴⁻²² t͡ɕioʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰi¹¹⁻⁵³ kim⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡ɕioʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁻⁴¹ kim⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡ɕiɤʔ⁴/

Noun

試金石

1. a touchstone
2. (idiomatic) an acid test

   • 這種事情是夫妻感情好壞的分水嶺，試金石！ [MSC, trad.]
     这种事情是夫妻感情好坏的分水岭，试金石！ [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2003: Wang Hailing, 中國式離婚 (Divorce, China style/Chapter 10)

     Zhè zhǒng shìqíng shì fūqī gǎnqíng hǎo huài de fēnshuǐlǐng, shìjīnshí! [Pinyin]

     This (a couple's sex life) is the kind of thing that is a critical indicator, an acid test, of how a husband and wife feel about each other!

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
試	金	石
し Grade: 4	きん Grade: 1	せき Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

試金石 (hiragana しきんせき, rōmaji shikinseki)

1. touchstone
2. test case, a test
   • 1913, 阿部次郎, 三太郎の日記　第一:

     要 (よう)するに貧 (びん)乏 (ぼう)人 (にん)の創 (そう)造 (ぞう)は金持 (かねもち)よりも酷 (きび)しい試金石 (しきんせき)にかけられてゐる。

     Yōsuru ni binbōnin no sōzō wa kanemochi yori mo kibishii shikinseki ni kakeraretewiru.

     In a word, the poor man endures a harsher test through his creation than a rich man.