横空出世 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 橫空出世 héngkōngchūshì ㄏㄥˊ ㄎㄨㄥ ㄔㄨ ㄕˋ to come to the fore in spectacular fashion to emerge from obscurity to achieve great success idiom Character by character 横(héng)horizontal 空(kōng)empty 出(chū)go out 世(shì)surname Shi A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0