Chinese symbol for “emergence”
崛起
jué qǐ
to rise abruptly (to a towering position); to tower over; to spring up; to emerge suddenly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for emergence is 崛起 (jué qǐ), defined as: to rise abruptly (to a towering position); to tower over; to spring up; to emerge suddenly; the emergence (e.g. of a power).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 崛起.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奇崛 | qí jué | strange and prominent |
| 崛地而起 | jué dì ér qǐ | lit. arising suddenly above the level ground (idiom); sudden emergence of prominent new feature |
| 崛立 | jué lì | to tower over; rising (to a dominant position) |
| 起来 (起來) | qǐ lai | to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2] |
| 一起 | yī qǐ | (in) the same place; together; in company (with) |
| 引起 | yǐn qǐ | to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse |
| 看起来 (看起來) | kàn qǐ lai | seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be |
| 想起 | xiǎng qǐ | to recall; to think of |
See also: Japanese symbol for “emergence”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.