應運而生 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 应运而生 yìngyùnérshēng ㄧㄥˋ ㄩㄣˋ ㄦˊ ㄕㄥ 男 女 to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom) to arise at an opportune time able to take advantage of an opportunity to rise to the occasion Character by character 應(yìng)answer 運(yùn)move 而(ér)and 生(shēng)grow A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0