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Mythic Mandarin

发生 (fā shēng): meaning and stroke order

发生 (fā shēng) means to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out.

发生

Simplified
发生
Traditional
發生
Pinyin
fā shēng

Stroke order of 发生

发

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

Stroke by stroke

生

  • shēng to be born; to give birth
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 发生

  1. fā shēng Traditional 發生
    • to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out

Radicals of the characters

发
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 5 strokes
生
Radical 生 (Kangxi radical 100) · 5 strokes · built from 𠂉 and 土

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.

发生 in our stories

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  • 从那以后，奇怪的事发生了：每天他干完活回家，桌子上都有做好的热饭。

    cóng nà yǐhòu qíguài de shì fāshēng le měitiān tā gànwán huó huí jiā zhuōzi shàng dōu yǒu zuò hǎo de rè fàn

    From then on something strange happened: every day when he came home from work, a hot meal was waiting on the table.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

  • 转变发生在第二年春天。楼里贴出了一张通知：周六“义务劳动日”，请所有住户一起清理院子。

    zhuǎnbiàn fāshēng zài dì-èr nián chūntiān lóu lǐ tiē chū le yì zhāng tōngzhī zhōuliù yìwù láodòngrì qǐng suǒyǒu zhùhù yìqǐ qīnglǐ yuànzi

    The change came in her second spring. A notice went up in the building: Saturday was a "community work day", and all residents were asked to help tidy the courtyard.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 发生

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).