| 后起之秀 |
hòu qǐ zhī xiù |
(idiom) an up-and-coming youngster; new talent; a brilliant younger generation |
| 后 |
Hòu |
surname Hou |
| 后 |
hòu |
empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler |
| 后 |
hòu |
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post- |
| 起 |
qǐ |
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 |
zhī |
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it |
| 秀 |
xiù |
(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful / (bound form) superior; excellent / (loanword) show (as in 时装秀) / (loanword) to show off; to flaunt (as in 秀厨艺) / (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears |