Chinese symbol for “display”
发挥
fā huī
Traditional: 發揮
to display; to exhibit; to bring out implicit or innate qualities; to express (a thought or moral)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for display is 发挥 (fā huī), defined as: 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).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “display”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 陈列 (陳列) | chén liè | to display; to exhibit |
| 陈 (陳) | chén | (bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display; (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell |
| 展示 | zhǎn shì | to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit |
| 陈设 (陳設) | chén shè | to display; to exhibit; to set out; furnishings |
| 罗布 (羅布) | luó bù | to display; to spread out |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发挥.
| 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) |
| 指挥 (指揮) | zhǐ huī | to conduct; to command |
| 指挥官 (指揮官) | zhǐ huī guān | commander |
| 指挥部 (指揮部) | zhǐ huī bù | headquarters; command post |
See also: Japanese symbol for “display”.
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.