发展 fāzhǎn▶ การพัฒนา

Stroke order

发展 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 发 — 5 strokes
• 展 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. development
2. growth
3. to develop
4. to grow
5. to expand

Example sentences

• 这个城市发展得很快。Zhège chéngshì fāzhǎn de hěn kuài.This city is developing very fast.
• 经济发展很重要。Jīngjì fāzhǎn hěn zhòngyào.Economic development is very important.

Related words

• 出发เริ่มต้น, จัดแสดง
• 发生เกิดขึ้น
• 沙发โซฟา
• 理发การตัดผม
• 发ส่งออก
• 发愁กังวล, เป็นห่วง

发展 is pronounced fāzhǎn and means “การพัฒนา”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 发展 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.