Chinese symbol for “issue”
发表
fā biǎo
Traditional: 發表
to issue; to publish
The closest CC-CEDICT match for issue is 发表 (fā biǎo), defined as: to issue; to publish.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “issue”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发出 (發出) | fā chū | to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch; to produce (a sound); to let out (a laugh) |
| 颁布 (頒布) | bān bù | to issue; to proclaim |
| 颁发 (頒發) | bān fā | to issue; to promulgate |
| 发给 (發給) | fā gěi | to issue; to grant |
| 签发 (簽發) | qiān fā | to issue (a document); to sign and issue officially |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发表.
| 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) |
| 代表 | dài biǎo | representative; delegate |
| 表示 | biǎo shì | (of sb) to express; to state; to show; (of sth) to indicate; to signify; to show |
| 表现 (表現) | biǎo xiàn | to show; to show off |
See also: Japanese symbol for “issue”.
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.