Entry
后hòu起qǐ之zhī秀xiù

  1. (idiom) an up-and-coming youngster; new talent; a brilliant younger generation

    trad. 後起之秀

Also written 後起之秀【hòu qǐ zhī xiù】

Characters in this word

4
起
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to rise, to raise, to get up, to set out, to start, to appear, to launch, to initiate (action), to draft, to establish, to get (from a depot or counter), verb suffix, to start, starting from (a time, place, price etc), classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance, classifier for groups: batch, group

Pinyin
qǐ
Strokes
10
Frequency
687 of 2500
Words starting with 起Words ending in 起Anywhere in a word
秀
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(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful, (bound form) superior; excellent, (loanword) show (as in 時裝秀|时装秀[shi2 zhuang1 xiu4]), (loanword) to show off; to flaunt (as in 秀廚藝|秀厨艺[xiu4 chu2 yi4]), (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears

Pinyin
xiù
Strokes
7
Frequency
4692 of 2500
Words starting with 秀Words ending in 秀Anywhere in a word