发

to send out; to happen; hair

No. 32 most used

Also read: fà 头发

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

Like 友 friend with a stroke flying off: something sent out.

Words

• 发生

  fā shēng

  to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 "a problem arises")
• 发现

  fā xiàn

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

  fā shì

  to vow; to pledge; to swear
• 出发

  chū fā

  to set off; to start (on a journey); (fig.) to proceed from (a particular standpoint or basis)
• 头发

  tóu fa

  hair (on the head)
• 发展

  fā zhǎn

  development; growth; to develop

Sentences

• 今天发生了什么事？

  jīn tiān fā shēng le shén me shì

  What happened today?
• 他明天出发去中国。

  tā míng tiān chū fā qù zhōng guó

  He leaves for China tomorrow.
• 意外发生在两年前。

  yì wài fā shēng zài liǎng nián qián

  The accident happened two years ago.
• 我不想这种事发生。

  wǒ bù xiǎng zhè zhǒng shì fā shēng

  I don't want something like this to happen.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.