发生 (fāshēng) means Happen (occur). Below are 3 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
昨天 发生 了一件小事。
Zuótiān fāshēng le yí jiàn xiǎo shì.
Something small happened yesterday.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 发生
路口 发生 了交通事故。
Lùkǒu fāshēng le jiāotōng shìgù.
A traffic accident happened at the crossroads.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 发生
这种事往往 发生 在早上。
Zhè zhǒng shì wǎngwǎng fāshēng zài zǎoshang.
This sort of thing usually happens in the morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 往往
Questions about 发生
How is 发生 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 发生 (fāshēng, "Happen (occur)"), 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 发生 an HSK word?
Yes — 发生 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 发生?
The dictionary page for 发生 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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