雨后春笋 — Chinese idiom
雨后春笋
yǔ hòu chūn sǔn
Traditional: 雨後春筍
Meaning
- lit. after rain, the spring bamboo ; fig. rapid new growth
- many new things emerge in rapid succession
Character by character
- 雨yǔrain
- 后hòuafter; behind, rear; descendants
- 春chūnspringtime; joyful, lustful, wanton
- 笋sǔnbamboo shoots
Idioms sharing a character
- 一雨成秋 yī yǔ chéng qiū
- 倾盆大雨 qīng pén dà yǔ
- 呼风唤雨 hū fēng huàn yǔ
- 天雨路滑 tiān yù lù huá
- 巴山夜雨 Bā shān yè yǔ
- 日晒雨淋 rì shài yǔ lín
- 春风化雨 chūn fēng huà yǔ
- 梨花带雨 lí huā dài yǔ
- 栉风沐雨 zhì fēng mù yǔ
- 汗如雨下 hàn rú yǔ xià
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