发生
fā shēngㄈㄚ ㄕㄥ
Sino-Vietnamese: PHÁT SINH
Traditional: 發生
HSK 4HSK 3.0 · 3TOCFL 2
Meaning(verb, verbal noun)
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
The subject is an event or place (这里发生了事故), not the person affected.
Examples
昨天这里发生了一件大事。
zuó tiān zhè lǐ fā shēng le yí jiàn dà shì.
Something big happened here yesterday.
发生什么事了？
fā shēng shén me shì le?
What happened?
这种问题以后不能再发生。
zhè zhǒng wèn tí yǐ hòu bù néng zài fā shēng.
This kind of problem must not happen again.
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Stroke order
PHÁT · 5 strokes
to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)
SINH · 5 strokes
to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student
Related words
- 发现 fā xiàn — to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery
- 头发 tóu fa — hair (on the head)
- 发烧 fā shāo — to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever
- 发 fā — to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)
- 发展 fā zhǎn — development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- 出发 chū fā — to set off; to start (on a journey)
- 沙发 shā fā — sofa (loanword); (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post
- 理发 lǐ fà — to get a haircut; to have one's hair done; to cut (sb's) hair; to give (sb) a haircut