# 发生 (fāshēng)

In Mandarin Chinese, 发生 (fāshēng) means “to happen; to occur”. It is part of the HSK 3 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: to happen; to occur
- Pinyin: fāshēng (fa1 sheng1)
- Traditional: 發生
- HSK 3.0 · Level 3
- HSK 2.0 · Level 4

## Examples

- 昨天路上发生了什么事情？
  Zuótiān lùshang fāshēngle shénme shìqíng?
  What happened on the road yesterday?

## Characters

- [发](https://hanziro.com/word/fa-send-out/) (fā): to send out; to issue
- [生](https://hanziro.com/word/sheng-be-born/) (shēng): to be born; raw

https://hanziro.com/word/fa-sheng-happen/

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