{"path":"/entry/33452","title":"将信将疑 / 將信將疑 (jiāng xìn jiāng yí) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"将信将疑 / 將信將疑 (jiāng xìn jiāng yí): see 半信半疑 bàn xìn bàn yí. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":33452,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["将信将疑"],"TRADITIONAL":["將信將疑"]}},"phonetic":"jiāng xìn jiāng yí","phoneticKey":"jiang1 xin4 jiang1 yi2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"see ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"REF","text":null,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["半信半疑"]}},"phonetic":"bàn xìn bàn yí","phoneticKey":"ban4 xin4 ban4 yi2","readingId":16593}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":[],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":16593,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["半信半疑"],"TRADITIONAL":["半信半疑"]}},"phonetic":"bàn xìn bàn yí","gloss":{"simplified":"(idiom) half believing, half doubting","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"First attested in the mid-8ᵗʰ century, in Dirge on an Ancient Battlefield by Li Hua:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Note that the coordinate structure 將…將… can be traced back to the first anthology of Chinese poetry, The Classic of Poetry.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"生也何恩？杀之何咎？其存其殁，家莫闻知。人或有言，将信将疑。","traditional":"生也何恩？殺之何咎？其存其歿，家莫聞知。人或有言，將信將疑。"},"phonetic":"Shēng yě hé ēn? Shā zhī hé jiù? Qí cún qí mò, jiā mò wénzhī. Rén huòyǒu yán, jiāng xìn jiāng yí.","english":"They owe no thanks for life, for what have they done to deserve death? They may be alive or dead the family knows it not. And if one brings the news, they listen, half doubting, half believing.","ref":"circa 740s, 李華,《弔古戰場文》(On an Old Battle-field), translated by H. A. Giles"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}