Chinese symbol for “developing”
发展中
fā zhǎn zhōng
Traditional: 發展中
developing; under development; in the pipeline
The closest CC-CEDICT match for developing is 发展中 (fā zhǎn zhōng), defined as: developing; under development; in the pipeline.
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Characters and stroke order
中 zhōng
central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Ch
radical 2 ⼁ · 4 strokes
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发展中.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 发现 (發現) | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 发布 (發佈) | fā bù | variant of 发布 (fā bù) |
| 开展 (開展) | kāi zhǎn | to launch; to develop |
| 展开 (展開) | zhǎn kāi | to unfold; to spread out; to open up; to launch; to carry out |
| 展示 | zhǎn shì | to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit |
| 其中 | qí zhōng | among; in |
See also: Japanese symbol for “developing”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.