Illustration: At a regional Japanese cookware fair, a young maker’s small folding-table stall has attracted a dense semicircle of shop buyers. The maker demonstrates a cleverly balanced saucepan, looking surprised as more buyers offer business-card cases and examine the product.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

台たい頭とう

taitou

to rise to prominence

Example sentences

  1. ロシアはもう１つの超大国ちょうたいこくとして台頭たいとうしていた。

    Russia had emerged as a second superpower.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 当時とうじの新あたらしい形かたちの民主主義みんしゅしゅぎが台頭たいとうしてきた。

    In those days, a new type of democracy was rising.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. しかし、織田信長おだのぶながの台頭たいとうにより、力ちからを失うしなうに至いたった。

    However, because of Nobunaga ODA’s rise, it lost its power.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 台頭

  • 台pedestal; a standOnダイ・タイKunうてな・われ・つかさ
  • 頭head; counter for large animalsOnトウ・ズ・トKunあたま・かしら・かぶり

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