发言 (fāyán) means Speech (talk - witness). Below are 5 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
会上他第一个 发言 。
Huì shàng tā dì yī ge fāyán.
He spoke first at the meeting.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 发言
请准备一下你的 发言 。
Qǐng zhǔnbèi yíxià nǐ de fāyán.
Please prepare your remarks.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 发言
他常在网上的论坛里 发言 。
Tā cháng zài wǎng shang de lùntán lǐ fāyán.
He often posts in online forums.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 论坛
同学们争先恐后地举手 发言 。
Tóngxuémen zhēng xiān kǒng hòu de jǔshǒu fāyán.
The students all raced to raise their hands and speak.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 争先恐后
他的 发言 很空洞，没有实际内容。
Tā de fāyán hěn kōngdòng, méiyǒu shíjì nèiróng.
His speech was hollow, with no real content.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 空洞
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How is 发言 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 发言 (fāyán, "Speech (talk - witness)"), 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 发言 an HSK word?
Yes — 发言 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 发言?
The dictionary page for 发言 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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