发生 - Mandarin word #176

发生

fāshēng

Traditional: 發生

HSK 3

#176 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to happen, to occur

Stroke order

发

生

？

What happened?

？

How did this happen?

。

Nothing happened.

祸huò。

A car accident happened here.

。

I do not know what has happened.

发生 (fā shēng) means to happen, to occur. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

发现

to discover, to find

就

then, just, exactly, as soon as

看到

to see, to catch sight of

事情

matter, affair, thing

听到

to hear, to catch (a sound)

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 4.