发动

发动 fādòng in a sentence

Launch (start - mobilize)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

发动 (fādòng) means Launch (start - mobilize). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

车子怎么也 发动 不起来。

Chēzi zěnme yě fādòng bu qǐlái.

The car simply would not start.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 发动

他们 发动 群众一起清理河道。

Tāmen fādòng qúnzhòng yìqǐ qīnglǐ hédào.

They rallied the public to clear the river channel together.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 发动

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How is 发动 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 发动 (fādòng, "Launch (start - mobilize)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 发动 an HSK word?

Yes — 发动 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 发动 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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