发生

Pinyin: fāshēng

to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 發生問題|发生问题[fa1 sheng1 wen4 ti2] "a problem arises")

Example sentence

你记得这是在哪一年发生的吗?

Nǐ jìde zhè shì zài nǎ yī nián fāshēng de ma?

Do you remember which year it happened?

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What 发生 means

发生 (fāshēng) is a Chinese word meaning “to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 發生問題|发生问题[fa1 sheng1 wen4 ti2] "a problem arises")”. It appears in the HSK 3 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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