出发
chū fā 1–1
to set off; to start (on a journey)
- Characters
- 2
- 出 · 发
- Syllables
- 2
- chū fā
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,714
Part of speech: v
Character by character
- 出chū5 strokesHSK 1go out, send out; stand; produce
- 发fā5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 發issue, dispatch, send out; hair
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
我们后天出发。
Wǒ men hòu tiān chū fā
We're leaving the day after tomorrow.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 出发. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 出chūHSK 1
to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 发现fā xiànHSK 2
to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery
- 发生fā shēngHSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 出来chū láiHSK 1
to come out; to appear; to arise
- 出现chū xiànHSK 2
to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
- 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)
- 出去chū qùHSK 1
to go out
- 发展fā zhǎnHSK 3
development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- 提出tí chūHSK 2
to raise (an issue); to propose; to put forward; to suggest; to post (on a website); to withdraw (cash)
- 头发tóu faHSK 2
hair (on the head)
- 演出yǎn chūHSK 3
to act (in a play); to perform; to put on (a performance); performance; concert; show
- 出口chū kǒuHSK 2
an exit; to speak; to export; (of a ship) to leave port
- 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)
- 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)
- 出色chū sèHSK 4
remarkable; outstanding
- 付出fù chūHSK 4
to pay; to expend; to invest (energy or time)
- 出生chū shēngHSK 2
to be born
- 出席chū xíHSK 4
to attend; to participate; present
- 指出zhǐ chūHSK 3
to indicate; to point out
- 出租车chū zū chēHSK 2
taxi; (Tw) rental car
- 发布fā bùHSK 5
to release; to issue; to announce; to distribute; also written 发布
- 退出tuì chūHSK 3
to withdraw; to abort; to quit; to log out (computing)
- 开发kāi fāHSK 3
to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop