(fā) - to send out, to issue, to develop in Mandarin

fā

Traditional: 發

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Translation

to send out, to issue, to develop

Word origin

The traditional form 發 depicted shooting an arrow from a bow, giving the core sense of sending out or releasing, from which to issue and to develop arose.

Origin: ideograph
Root: 弓 (gōng, bow) with 癶 (bǒ) and 殳 (shū) elements depicting release

Stroke order

发

Examples

封fēng邮yóu。

I sent you an email.

。

The teacher handed out books to us.

短duǎn。

He sent me a text message.

。

This company is developing very fast.

。

Please send the notice to everyone.

发 (fā) means to send out, to issue, or to develop, and is one of the most productive verbs in Mandarin. It heads many compounds such as 发现 (to discover) and 发展 (to develop).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 发.

发生fā shēngto happen, to occur 发现fā xiànto discover, to find 发誓fā shìswear an oath, vow 出发chū fāto set off, to depart, to start out 头发tóu fahair (on the head)发展fā zhǎnto develop, development, growth 发射fā shèto launch, to fire, to emit

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This word is part of lesson 36.