Chinese symbol for “development”
发展
fā zhǎn
Traditional: 發展
development; growth; to develop; to grow
The closest CC-CEDICT match for development is 发展 (fā zhǎn), defined as: development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “development”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发展.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 扩展 (擴展) | kuò zhǎn | to extend; to expand |
See also: Japanese symbol for “development”.
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.