后起之秀 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 後起之秀 hòuqǐzhīxiù ㄏㄡˋ ㄑㄧˇ ㄓ ㄒㄧㄡˋ an up-and-coming youngster new talent a brilliant younger generation idiom Character by character 后(hòu)surname Hou 起(qǐ)rise 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 秀(xiù)refined A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0