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烈火见真金
liè​huǒ​jiàn​zhēn​jīn

trials test character

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
烈火见真金 烈火見真金 liè​huǒ​jiàn​zhēn​jīn
trials test character
Literally "true gold is revealed in a raging fire"; used to mean that a person's true character and noble qualities are only revealed in times of crisis or through severe trials.

Frequency

Written text
0.008 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)