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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
After the handshapes.
Noun
rock paper scissors (uncountable)
- (hand games) A popular children's game using three hand signs representing rock, paper and scissors, frequently used as a tiebreaker.
- Synonyms: paper scissors stone, scissors paper rock, scissors paper stone, janken, roshambo
- (by extension) Any situation where strategies are not transitive, meaning each strategy is strong against some strategies and weak against others in a loop such that there is no universally best option.
Derived terms
Translations
popular child's game
- Arabic: حَجَر وَرَقَة مِقَصّ (ḥajar waraqa miqaṣṣ), حَجَر وَرَق مِقَصّ (ḥajar waraq miqaṣṣ)
- Armenian: չինգաչունգ (čʻingačʻung), քար, մկրատ, թուղթ (kʻar, mkrat, tʻuġtʻ)
- Bulgarian: ка́мък, но́жица, харти́я (kámǎk, nóžica, hartíja)
- Burmese: စုံစွမ်စိ (cumcwamci.)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 包剪揼 (baau1 zin2 dap6)
- Hokkien: 鉸刀石頭紙／铰刀石头纸 (ka-to-chio̍h-thâu-chóa)
- Mandarin: 石頭剪子布／石头剪子布 (zh) (shítou jiǎnzi bù), 剪刀石頭布／剪刀石头布 (zh) (jiǎndāo shítou bù)
- Czech: kámen, nůžky, papír m
- Danish: sten, saks, papir
- Dutch: steen, papier, schaar ?, blad-steen-schaar ?, schaar steen papier
- Esperanto: papero, tondilo, ŝtono
- Estonian: kivi-paber-käärid
- Finnish: kivi-sakset-paperi, kivi-paperi-sakset
- French: pierre-feuille-ciseaux (fr) m, chifoumi (fr) m
- Galician: pedra, papel, tesoura
- German: Schnick Schnack Schnuck n, Schere, Stein, Papier (de) n, Ching, Chang, Chong n, Klick, Klack, Kluck n
- Hebrew: אבן נייר ומספריים / אֶבֶן נְיָר וּמִסְפָּרַיִם (he) ? (éven n'yár u-misparáyim)
- Hindi: रॉक कागज कैंची ? (rŏk kāgaj ka͠icī)
- Hungarian: kő-papír-olló
- Indonesian: batu, gunting, kertas, suit (id), suten (id)
- Irish: cloch páipéar siosúr m
- Italian: morra cinese f, carta, forbice, sasso m
- Japanese: じゃん拳, じゃんけん (ja) (janken), じゃん拳ぽん, じゃんけんぽん (ja) (jankenpon)
- Korean: 가위바위보 (ko) (gawibawibo)
- Latvian: akmens, šķēres, papīrīt's ?
- Macedonian: лист камен ножички (list kamen nožički)
- Maltese: karta, ġebla jew imqass
- Norwegian: stein saks papir ?
- Polish: papier, kamień, nożyce m
- Portuguese: pedra-papel-tesoura m, joquempô m
- Russian: ка́мень, но́жницы, бума́га (ru) n (kámenʹ, nóžnicy, bumága)
- Spanish: piedra, papel o tijera (es) m
- Swedish: sten, sax, påse n
- Tagalog: jak-en-poy
- Thai: เป่ายิ้งฉุบ (th) (bpào-yíng-chùp)
- Turkish: taş kağıt makas
- Ukrainian: ка́мінь-но́жиці-папі́р m (káminʹ-nóžyci-papír)
- Vietnamese: oẳn tù tì (vi), xù xi, kéo búa bao (vi)
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