(bound form) to sprout / to bud / (coll.) cute / adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え "moe", affection for an anime or manga character)
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(of a seed) to germinate / (of a plant) to sprout / to bud / sprout / bud / (also used figuratively)
to sprout / (fig.) to emerge
cute little kid
(neologism) (slang) newbie
to burgeon / to produce / to conceive / to be in the initial stage
to sprout / to shoot / to bud
(Internet slang) adorable / cute
endearingly silly
to germinate again
to revert to old ways
to nip in the bud
see 故態復萌|故态复萌[]
(slang) to act cute
(slang) to act cute
to prevent a disaster before the event (idiom) / to nip sth in the bud
(archaic) Mongol
Mengzhu mountain range between south Hunan and Guangxi
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27