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  *發* | 發* | *發
to send out / to show (one's feeling) / to issue / to develop / to make a bundle of money / classifier for gunshots (rounds)
HSK 2
to set off / to start (on a journey)
HSK 2
to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop
HSK 3
sofa (loanword) / CL: 條|条, 張|张 / (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post
HSK 3
to enlighten / to explain (a text etc) / to stimulate (a mental attitude) / enlightenment / revelation / motivation
HSK 5
to break out / to erupt / to explode / to burst out
HSK 6
to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc)
HSK 6
research and development / to develop
HSK 6
to lead to / to trigger / to initiate / to cause / to evoke (emotions)
HSK 7-9
wholesale / bulk trade / distribution
HSK 7-9
to occur suddenly
HSK 7-9
increasingly / more and more / ever more / all the more
HSK 7-9
to arouse / to stimulate / (physics) to excite
HSK 7-9
spontaneous
HSK 7-9
to distribute / to emit / to issue
HSK 7-9
to issue / to promulgate / to award
HSK 7-9
to induce / to cause / to elicit / to trigger
HSK 7-9
to recur (of a disease) / to reappear / to relapse (into a former bad state)
HSK 7-9
to not say a word (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to shine / to glow / to irradiate / to flash
HSK 7-9
to expose / to bring to light / to disclose / revelation
HSK 7-9
to sprout / to shoot / to bud
HSK 7-9
face glowing (idiom); looking radiant / all smiles
HSK 7-9
to fire (a weapon) in rapid succession
to distribute / distribution / to assign (sb) to a job
first issue / first public showing
to evaporate / evaporation
to trigger / to spark
Daihatsu, Japanese car company
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
to receive and send / to receive and transmit
to supply again (sth lost) / to reissue / to pay retroactively
all the more / increasingly
to expose (e.g., wrongdoing) / to accuse (in court) / to impeach / to denounce
to volatilize / to vaporize / to evaporate (esp. at ordinary temperatures) / (in compound words) volatile
to transmit / to forward (mail, SMS, packets of data) / to pass on / to republish (an article from another publication)
to lodge an accusation / accusation (law)
to issue (a document) / to sign and issue officially
to issue / to distribute / to publish along with
to express (an emotion) / to give vent
(of a group of people or a convoy of vehicles) to set off
to erupt / an eruption
to burst forth
to happen simultaneously / (medicine) (of one disease) to be complicated by (another); (of another disease) to erupt simultaneously / (computing) concurrent
(idiom) to speak from the heart
to rouse to vigorous action / energetic mood
increasingly / more and more / ever more / all the more
to publish / to print and distribute
volcanic eruption
to get ready (for a journey) / ready and waiting
to break out (of disease etc) / to suddenly get rich (or prominent)
to sprout up; to flourish; (of war etc) to break out / rapid growth
(idiom) high-spirited; full of mettle
(of a plot etc) to be exposed (idiom) / to come to light
(to act) on one's own initiative
to fire in bursts / shooting intermittently
to emerge and grow / to develop
to move and inspire
to elucidate / to expound / to study and explain
to not say a word (idiom)
(loanword) caliph / also written 哈利發|哈利发
to order sb to start on a journey
to broadcast
to pull the bow without shooting (idiom from Mencius); ready and waiting for action / to go through the motions / to practice / a trial run
in high spirits (idiom); glowing with health and vigor
a punitive expedition / a requisition
to occur unexpectedly
could happen at any moment / on the verge
to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)
Bratislava
to banish to penal servitude
approved for distribution / to provide (wages etc) as usual (e.g. while an employee is on maternity leave)
Nuku'alofa, capital of Tonga (Tw)
to requisition / to dispatch
to send / to cable (a telegram)
to dispatch / to send out (mail)
Chow Yun-Fat (1955-), Hong Kong TV and film star
RT Mart (supermarket chain)
to vanish / to disappear from the face of the earth
lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom) / good preparation is the key to success / to be well prepared
a student should not be guided until he has made an effort to express his thoughts (idiom)
(of a crime) to occur / (old) (of a crime) to be discovered / to investigate a crime on the spot
to issue (a memorandum etc) to lower levels / to distribute (e.g. disaster relief to victims)
to reissue / (of a disease) to recur / (of a patient) to suffer a relapse
beanbag
(of diseases, accidents) to occur with a high incidence / (old) to score highly in the imperial exams
to happen simultaneously
to reconstitute (dried mushrooms, seaweed etc)
to keep one's emotions inside oneself / to restrain one's emotions
(of a newspaper or magazine) to publish (an article, story, report etc); to carry
the Cambrian explosion
volatile
a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people
to send to multiple recipients; mass mailout / to occur in a clustered fashion
amobarbital (drug) (Tw)
(usu. of bad things) to frequently happen; to occur often
to take preemptive action / (sports) to be in the starting lineup / (of a baseball pitcher) to be the starting pitcher
King Wu of Zhou, personal name Ji Fa, reigned 1046-1043 BC as first king of Western Zhou dynasty 西周 1046-771 BC
(upholstered) armchair
(of trains etc) to set off (on a journey) / to start (being issued or circulated) / to start (happening) / originating

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