Chinese symbol for “occurrence”
发案
fā àn
Traditional: 發案
occurrence (refers to time and place esp. of a criminal act); to take place; to occur; to advertise freelance work
The closest CC-CEDICT match for occurrence is 发案 (fā àn), defined as: occurrence (refers to time and place esp. of a criminal act); to take place; to occur; to advertise freelance work.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发案.
| 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) |
| 方案 | fāng àn | plan; program (for action etc) |
| 案件 | àn jiàn | case; instance |
| 答案 | dá àn | answer; solution |
See also: Japanese symbol for “occurrence”.
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.