脱颖而出 脫穎而出
脱颖而出脫穎而出 in English
- to reveal one's talent (idiom) / to rise above others / to distinguish oneself
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
脱
These are the forms of 脫, the traditional character: 脱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
颖
These are the forms of 穎, the traditional character: 颖 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
出
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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玛丽从大约500名申请者中脱颖而出。
Mary got the nod from among some 500 applicants.
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身着西装，他脱颖而出。
Wearing a suit, he stood out.