







烁石流金 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “describes extremely high temperatures”. So scorching that stones would melt and gold would flow. Used to depict intensely hot weather. Literally, “Melting stones and flowing gold”.

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Open the tool →烁石流金 (shuò shí liú jīn) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “describes extremely high temperatures”.
烁石流金 is pronounced shuò shí liú jīn in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 烁石流金 means “Melting stones and flowing gold”. It is used to mean “describes extremely high temperatures”.
指温度极高,能将金石熔化。形容酷热。烁,通“铄”。