方兴未艾

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

CEDICT

正在蓬勃发展。宋．陈亮〈祭周贤董文〉：「连岁有江上之役，欲为公寿而不果奔也，谓公之寿方兴未艾，而此心终未泯也。」也作「未艾方兴」。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

方兴未艾 fāngxīngwèi'ài

Entry Composition

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
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)
3 未艾 wèiài (literary) not having come to its term

Related entries

方滋未艾 fāngzīwèiài
  1. flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding
  2. still growing strong
  3. on the up
方兴未已 fāngxīngwèiyǐ
  1. flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding
  2. still growing strong
  3. on the up
上风 shàngfēng
  1. on the up
  2. currently winning
  3. rising (in popularity etc)
他觉得自己占了上风，但我反过来扭转了局面。

He thought he had the upper hand, but I turned the tables on him.

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