发生 fāshēng▶ เกิดขึ้น

Stroke order

发生 is written in 10 strokes across 2 characters.

• 发 — 5 strokes
• 生 — 5 strokes

Example sentences

• 昨天发生了一件事。Zuótiān fāshēng le yí jiàn shì.Something happened yesterday.
• 这里从来没发生过事故。Zhèlǐ cónglái méi fāshēng guo shìgù.No accident has ever happened here.

Related words

• 出发เริ่มต้น, จัดแสดง
• 出生การเกิด, กำเนิด
• 发展การพัฒนา
• 沙发โซฟา
• 理发การตัดผม
• 生命ชีวิต

发生 is pronounced fāshēng and means “เกิดขึ้น”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 发生 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.