萌芽 méngyá▶ brote; retoño

Stroke order

萌芽 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 萌 — 11 strokes
• 芽 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. (of a seed) to germinate
2. (of a plant) to sprout; to bud
3. sprout; bud
4. (also used figuratively)

Related words

• 美妙maravilloso
• 猛烈violento

萌芽 is pronounced méngyá and means “brote; retoño”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 萌芽 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.