层出不穷 — Chinese idiom
层出不穷
céng chū bù qióng
Traditional: 層出不窮
Meaning
- more and more emerge
- innumerable succession
- breeding like flies
Character by character
- 层cénglayer, floor, story, stratum
- 出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 穷qióngpoor, destitute; to exhaust
Idioms sharing a character
- 层峦叠嶂 céng luán dié zhàng
- 层见叠出 céng xiàn dié chū
- 仓皇出逃 cāng huáng chū táo
- 倾巢而出 qīng cháo ér chū
- 出乎意外 chū hū yì wài
- 出乎意料 chū hū yì liào
- 出乎预料 chū hū yù liào
- 出人意外 chū rén yì wài
- 出人意料 chū rén yì liào
- 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
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