Characters
- 后 (后): surname Hou
- 起 (起): 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
- 之 (之): (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- 秀 (秀): (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful; (bound form) superior; excellent; (loanword) show; (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
Resources
- Wiktionary: 后起之秀
- MDBG: 后起之秀
- Examples with 后起之秀 on Tatoeba
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