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发生 (fā shēng) English Meaning
- to happen
- to occur
- to take place
- to break out
Traditional Characters: 發生
发 forms words in:
HSK 3, HSK 4, HSK 5 and HSK 6. CLICK HERE to see them all.
生 forms words in:
HSK 1, HSK 2, HSK 3, HSK 4, HSK 5 and HSK 6. CLICK HERE to see them all.
Sample Sentences
- 其实没有发生。
Qíshí méiyǒu fāshēng.
It didn’t actually happen. - 希望它不会发生。
Xīwàng tā bù huì fāshēng.
Hope it doesn’t happen! - 那是不会发生的。
Nà shì bù huì fāshēng de.
That’s not going to happen. - 我希望那会发生。
Wǒ xīwàng nà huì fāshēng.
I hope that happens. - 我不想这种事发生。
Wǒ bùxiǎng zhè zhǒng shì fāshēng.
I don’t want that to happen. - 这是战斗发生的地方。
Zhè shì zhàndòu fāshēng dì dìfāng.
This is where the battle took place.
Stroke Order & Character Components
发 (fā): to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)
- 𠂇: hand
- 丶 (zhǔ): stroke
- 又 (yòu): still / hand
生 (shēng): to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student
- 生 (shēng): be born
Links to all HSK Words & Lists Containing 发
HSK 3 Word List
- 发(fā): to send out; to show (one’s feeling); to issue; to develop; classifier for gunshots (rounds)
- 发烧(fā shāo): have a high temperature (from illness); have a fever
- 发现(fā xiàn): to find; to discover
- 头发(tóu fa): hair (on the head)
HSK 4 Word List
- 出发(chū fā): to start out; to set off
- 发生(fā shēng): to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 发展(fā zhǎn): development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- 理发(lǐfà): a barber; hairdressing
- 沙发(shā fā): sofa; CL: 条(tiáo), 张(zhāng)
HSK 5 Word List
- 发表(fā biǎo): to publish; to issue; to put out; to issue (a statement);
- 发愁(fā chóu): to worry; to fret; to be anxious; to become sad
- 发达(fā dá): developed (country, etc.); flourishing; to develop
- 发抖(fā dǒu): to tremble; to shake; to shiver; to shudder; tremulous
- 发挥(fā huī): to display; to exhibit; to bring out implicit or innate qualities; to express (a thought or moral); to develop (an idea); to elaborate (on a theme)
- 发明(fā míng): to invent; invention; CL: 個|个(gè)
- 发票(fā piào): invoice; receipt or bill for purchase
- 发言(fā yán): to make a speech; statement; utterance
- 开发(kāi fā): exploit (a resource); open up (for development); to develop
- 启发(qǐfā): to enlighten; to explain and arouse interest; to inspire; inspiration; heuristic (attributively); to teach; CL: 個|个(gè)
HSK 6 Word List
- 颁发(bān fā): to issue; to promulgate; to award
- 爆发(bào fā): to break out; to erupt; to explode; to burst out
- 迸发(bèng fā): to burst out; to gush; to spurt
- 发布(fā bù): to release; to issue; to announce; to distribute; also written 發发布(fā bù)
- 发财(fā cái): to get rich
- 发呆(fā dāi): to daydream; lost in thought
- 发动(fā dòng): to start; to launch; to unleash; to mobilize; to arouse
- 发觉(fā jué): to find; to detect; to discover
- 发射(fā shè): to shoot (a projectile); to fire (a rocket); to launch; to emit (a particle); to discharge; emanation; emission
- 发誓(fā shì): to vow; to pledge; to swear
- 发行(fā xíng): to publish; to issue (stocks, currency, etc.); to release; to distribute (a film)
- 发炎(fā yán): inflamed from infection or injury; inflammation
- 发扬(fā yáng): to develop; to make full use of
- 发育(fā yù): to develop; growth; development
- 激发(jī fā): to arouse; to excite
- 批发(pī fā): wholesale; bulk trade; distribution
- 散发(sàn fā): distribute; emit; issue
- 蒸发(zhēng fā): to evaporate; evaporation
- 自发(zì fā): spontaneous
*CL: Classifier/Measure Word
Links to all HSK Words & Lists Containing 生
HSK 1 Word List
- 先生(xiānsheng): Mister (Mr.); husband; doctor (dialect); teacher; CL: 個|个(gè), 位(wèi)
- 学生(xuésheng): student; school child
- 医生(yīshēng): doctor; CL: 個|个(gè), 位(wèi), 名(míng)
HSK 2 Word List
- 生病(shēngbìng): to fall ill; to sicken
- 生日(shēngrì): birthday; CL: 個|个(gè)
HSK 3 Word List
- 生气(shēngqì): angry; mad; offended; animated; to get angry; to be enraged; to take offense; animation
HSK 4 Word List
- 出生(chūshēng): to be born
- 发生(fāshēng): to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 生活(shēnghuó): life; activity; to live; livelihood
- 生命(shēngmìng): life; living; biological; CL: 個|个(gè)
- 生意(shēngyì): life force; vitality;
- 卫生间(wèishēngjiān): bathroom; toilet; WC; CL:间(jiān)
HSK 5 Word List
- 产生(chǎnshēng): to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate; to appear; appearance; emergence; generation; production; yield
- 花生(huāshēng): peanut; groundnut; CL:粒(lì)
- 陌生(mòshēng): strange; unfamiliar
- 人生(rénshēng): human life
- 生产(shēngchǎn): to give birth to a child; parturition; to produce; manufacture
- 生动(shēngdòng): vivid; lively
- 生长(shēngzhǎng): to grow
HSK 6 Word List
- 诞生(dànshēng): to be born
- 生存(shēngcún): to exist; to survive
- 生机(shēngjī): opportunity to live; to reprieve from death; life force; vitality
- 生理(shēnglǐ): physiology
- 生疏(shēngshū): unfamiliar; strange; out of practice; not accustomed
- 生态(shēngtài): way of life; ecology
- 生物(shēngwù): organism; living creature; life form; biological; CL: 個|个(gè)
- 生效(shēngxiào): to take effect; to go into effect
- 生肖(shēngxiào): animal from the Chinese zodiac; one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支(dìzhī)
- 生锈(shēngxiù): to rust; to grow rusty; to corrode; oxidization
- 生育(shēngyù): to bear; to give birth; to grow; to rear; to bring up (children)
- 天生(tiānshēng): innate; natural
- 维生素(wéishēngsù): vitamin
- 自力更生(zìlìgēngshēng): regeneration through one’s own effort (idiom); self-reliance
*CL: Classifier/Measure Word
