Chinese symbol for “occur”
发生
fā shēng
Traditional: 發生
to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")
The closest CC-CEDICT match for occur is 发生 (fā shēng), defined as: to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises").
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “occur”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发病 (發病) | fā bìng | (of an illness) to occur; (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill |
| 案发 (案發) | àn fā | (of a crime) to occur; (old) (of a crime) to be discovered |
| 出 | chū | to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur |
| 生 | shēng | to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur |
| 发案 (發案) | fā àn | occurrence (refers to time and place esp. of a criminal act); to take place |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
| 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) |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 生产 (生產) | shēng chǎn | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child |
| 产生 (產生) | chǎn shēng | to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate |
See also: Japanese symbol for “occur”.
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.