头角峥嵘 — Chinese idiom
头角峥嵘
tóu jiǎo zhēng róng
Traditional: 頭角崢嶸
Meaning
- promise of brilliant young person ; showing extraordinary gifts
Character by character
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 角jiǎoangle, corner; horn, horn-shaped
- 峥zhēnghigh, lofty, noble; perilous, steep
- 嵘rónghigh, lofty, steep, towering
Idioms sharing a character
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 三头六臂 sān tóu liù bì
- 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
- 傻头傻脑 shǎ tóu shǎ nǎo
- 冤家对头 yuān jiā duì tóu
- 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
- 初露头角 chū lù tóu jiǎo
- 劈头盖脸 pī tóu gài liǎn
- 吴头楚尾 Wú tóu Chǔ wěi
- 品头论足 pǐn tóu lùn zú
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.