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Mythic Mandarin

告发 (gào fā): meaning and stroke order

告发 (gào fā) means to lodge an accusation, accusation (law).

告发

Simplified
告发
Traditional
告發
Pinyin
gào fā

Stroke order of 告发

告

  • gào (bound form) to say; to tell; to announce; to report
  • 7 strokes

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 告发

  1. gào fā Traditional 告發
    • to lodge an accusation
    • accusation (law)

Radicals of the characters

告
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 7 strokes · 𠂒 on top, 口 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.

告发 in our stories

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  • 北宋的时候，大文学家苏轼因为写诗讽刺朝廷的新法，被人告发，关进了监狱。

    Běi Sòng de shíhou dà wénxuéjiā Sū Shì yīnwèi xiě shī fěngcì cháotíng de xīnfǎ bèi rén gàofā guān jìn le jiānyù

    In the Northern Song the great writer Su Shi was denounced for writing poems that mocked the court's new laws, and was thrown into prison.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 告发

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).