方兴未艾

方興未艾
fāngxīngwèi'ài

to be ascendant or still growing

Wiktionary

Homographs

方兴未艾 fāngxīngwèiài
  1. flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding
  2. still growing strong
  3. on the up

Entry Composition

=1 方 Fāng surname Fang
=1 方 fāng
  1. square
  2. power or involution (math.)
  3. upright
  4. honest
  5. fair and square
  6. direction
  7. side
  8. party (to a contract, dispute etc)
  9. place
  10. method
  11. prescription (medicine)
  12. just when
  13. only or just
  14. classifier for square things
  15. abbr. for square or cubic meter
=1 方 fáng
  1. Pronunciation spelling of 慌 (huāng, “panicky”).
  2. Pronunciation spelling of 慌 (huāng, “to panic”).
  3. alternative form of 房
  4. alternative form of 防 (fáng)
  5. only used in 方良
  6. only used in 方輿／方舆 (Fángyù, “an ancient county in modern Shandong”)
  7. phon (unit of apparent loudness)
  8. to disobey
=2 兴 Xīng surname Xing
=2 兴 xīng
  1. to rise
  2. to flourish
  3. to become popular
  4. to start
  5. to encourage
  6. to get up
  7. (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect)
  8. maybe (dialect)
=2 兴 xìng
  1. feeling or desire to do sth
  2. interest in sth
  3. excitement
=3 未艾 wèiài (literary) not having come to its term
=3 未艾 wèi'ài
  1. (literary) to not be over yet
  2. to not be over yet