應運而生

jing3 wan6 ji4 sang1

to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom) · to arise at an opportune time · able to take advantage of an opportunity

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom)
  2. to arise at an opportune time
  3. able to take advantage of an opportunity
  4. to rise to the occasion

Written Forms

應運而生Traditional · Main Form
应运而生Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0