Word information
Simplified雨后春笋
Traditional雨後春筍
Pinyinyǔ hòu chūn sǔn
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Chinese word dictionary
雨后春笋
yǔ hòu chūn sǔn · lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth; many new things emerge in rapid succession
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后hòu
back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-; empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler; surname Hou
下雨xiàyǔto rain
雨yǔrain; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]
后面hòumiànthe back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
春天chūntiānspring (season); CL:個|个[ge4]
后来hòuláiafterwards; later; newly arrived