小白鼠

xiǎobáishǔ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 white mouse; lab mouse
  2. 2 guinea pig (a person something is tried out on)

Examples

HSK 5
Shíyànshì lǐ yǎng le hěnduō xiǎobáishǔ.
The lab keeps a lot of white mice.
HSK 5
Xīn xìtǒng hái méi cèshì hǎo, gōngsī jiù ràng wǒmen dāng xiǎobáishǔ.
The new system hadn't been properly tested, but the company made us the guinea pigs.

Tips

usage
For a person used as a test subject Chinese says 当小白鼠 'to be the little white mouse'. The animal English calls a guinea pig is 豚鼠, and in a lab 小鼠 is a mouse and 大鼠 a rat.

Stroke Order

小 xiǎo
白 bái
鼠 shǔ