发生

Character by character

• 发fā5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 發issue, dispatch, send out; hair
• 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 那有时会发生。

  Nà yǒu shí huì fā shēng

  That happens sometimes.

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• 那从不会发生。

  Nà cóng bù huì fā shēng

  That won't ever happen.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 发生. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 发现fā xiànHSK 2

  to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery

• 生活shēng huóHSK 2

  to live; life; livelihood

• 发fāHSK 2

  to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)

• 生shēngHSK 2

  to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student

• 先生xiān shengHSK 1

  teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor

• 学生xué shengHSK 1

  student; schoolchild

• 生命shēng mìngHSK 3

  life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature

• 医生yī shēngHSK 1

  doctor

• 发展fā zhǎnHSK 3

  development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand

• 人生rén shēngHSK 3

  life (one's time on earth)

• 产生chǎn shēngHSK 3

  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

• 生日shēng rìHSK 1

  birthday

• 头发tóu faHSK 2

  hair (on the head)

• 一生yī shēngHSK 2

  all one's life; throughout one's life

• 出发chū fāHSK 2

  to set off; to start (on a journey)

• 发表fā biǎoHSK 3

  to issue; to publish

• 发挥fā huīHSK 4

  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)

• 女生nǚ shēngHSK 1

  schoolgirl; female student; girl

• 发出fā chūHSK 3

  to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch; to produce (a sound); to let out (a laugh)

• 出生chū shēngHSK 2

  to be born

• 生意shēng yìHSK 3

  life force; vitality

• 生气shēng qìHSK 1

  to get angry; to take offense; angry; vitality; liveliness

• 生物shēng wùHSK 7

  organism; living creature; life form; biological

• 生产shēng chǎnHSK 3

  to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child