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出发 (chū fā): meaning and stroke order

出发 (chū fā) means to set off, to start (on a journey).

出发

Simplified
出发
Traditional
出發
Pinyin
chū fā

Stroke order of 出发

出

  • chū to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur
  • chū variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 齣

Stroke by stroke

发

  • fā to send out; to show (one's feeling)
  • fà hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 發

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 出发

  1. chū fā Traditional 出發
    • to set off
    • to start (on a journey)

Radicals of the characters

出
Radical 凵 (Kangxi radical 17) · 5 strokes · 屮 on top, 凵 below
发
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

出发 in our stories

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  • 一个叫张骞的年轻官员主动站了出来，带着一百多人出发了。

    yí gè jiào Zhāng Qiān de niánqīng guānyuán zhǔdòng zhàn le chūlai dài zhe yìbǎi duō rén chūfā le

    A young official called Zhang Qian volunteered and set off with more than a hundred men.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

  • 出发前，她已经想好了标题：《消失的手艺，孤独的老人》。

    chūfā qián tā yǐjīng xiǎng hǎo le biāotí xiāoshī de shǒuyì gūdú de lǎorén

    Before she set off, she had already decided on the headline: "A Vanishing Craft, a Lonely Old Man".

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

  • 凌晨两点，他们从最后一个营地出发。头灯的光在黑暗中连成一条线，每走一步，都要大口喘三口气。

    língchén liǎng diǎn tāmen cóng zuìhòu yí gè yíngdì chūfā tóudēng de guāng zài hēi'àn zhōng lián chéng yì tiáo xiàn měi zǒu yí bù dōu yào dàkǒu chuǎn sān kǒu qì

    At two in the morning they set out from the last camp. The headlamps formed a line of light in the darkness, and every step took three great gasps of breath.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 出发

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).