发动

Character by character

• 发fā5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 發issue, dispatch, send out; hair
• 动dòng6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 動move, happen; movement, action

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 发动. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 发现fā xiànHSK 2

  to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery

• 发生fā shēngHSK 3

  to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out

• 发fāHSK 2

  to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)

• 动dòngHSK 1

  (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 动词, verb

• 活动huó dòngHSK 2

  to exercise; to move about; to operate; to use connections (personal influence); loose; shaky; active; movable; activity; campaign; maneuver; behavior

• 行动xíng dòngHSK 2

  operation; action; to move about; mobile

• 发展fā zhǎnHSK 3

  development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand

• 运动yùn dòngHSK 2

  to move; to exercise; sports; exercise; motion; movement; campaign

• 动作dòng zuòHSK 1

  movement; motion; action; to act; to move

• 动物dòng wùHSK 2

  animal

• 头发tóu faHSK 2

  hair (on the head)

• 出发chū fāHSK 2

  to set off; to start (on a journey)

• 发表fā biǎoHSK 3

  to issue; to publish

• 发挥fā huīHSK 4

  to display; to exhibit; to bring out implicit or innate qualities; to express (a thought or moral); to develop (an idea); to elaborate (on a theme)

• 激动jī dòngHSK 4

  to move emotionally; to stir up (emotions); to excite

• 发出fā chūHSK 3

  to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch; to produce (a sound); to let out (a laugh)

• 移动yí dòngHSK 4

  to move; movement; migration; mobile; portable

• 启动qǐ dòngHSK 5

  to start (a machine); (fig.) to set in motion; to launch (an operation); to activate (a plan)

• 自动zì dòngHSK 3

  automatic; voluntarily

• 主动zhǔ dòngHSK 3

  to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord; spontaneous; active; opposite: passive 被动; drive (of gears and shafts etc)

• 感动gǎn dòngHSK 2

  to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally); moving

• 发布fā bùHSK 5

  to release; to issue; to announce; to distribute; also written 发布

• 动力dòng lìHSK 3

  motive power; force; (fig.) motivation; impetus

• 开发kāi fāHSK 3

  to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop