发 fā
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 又 — and, also, again, in addition
发放
fāfàng
to distribute, to issue
Characters in this word
放 fàng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 攵 — to rap, to tap
- Made of
- 方 square, rectangle 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 学校将在开学前统一发放教材和校园卡。 Xuéxiào jiāng zài kāixué qián tǒngyī fāfàng jiàocái hé xiàoyuán kǎ. The school will distribute textbooks and campus cards uniformly before the start of term.
- 公司每个月十号准时发放工资。 Gōngsī měi ge yuè shí hào zhǔnshí fāfàng gōngzī. The company pays out salaries on time on the tenth of every month.
- 社区给老人们发放了免费的口罩和体检卡。 Shèqū gěi lǎorénmen fāfàng le miǎnfèi de kǒuzhào hé tǐjiǎnkǎ. The neighbourhood committee handed out free masks and health check cards to the elderly.
Related words
- 出发 chūfā to set out
- 发 fā to send; to hand out
- 发现 fāxiàn to discover; to find
- 头发 tóufa hair
- 发表 fābiǎo to publish; to express publicly
- 发出 fāchū to give off; to send out
- 发达 fādá developed; advanced
- 发动 fādòng to start; to launch
- 发明 fāmíng to invent; invention
- 发生 fāshēng to happen; to occur
- 发送 fāsòng to send
- 发言 fāyán to speak; to make a speech