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发生

fā shēng

HSK 3 · word 1414 of 3,000

Meaning

• to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out

Example sentence

Characters in 发生

• 发 fā to send out
• 生 shēng to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born

发 to issue plus 生 to be born. Events happen by coming into being, and the word takes the event as subject: 发生了什么?

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