发 fā
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 又 — and, also, again, in addition
发抖
fādǒu
to tremble; to shiver
Characters in this word
抖 dǒu
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 斗 to struggle, to fight, to contend
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 听完事故经过后，证人的声音开始发抖，手里的杯子也差点掉下来。 Tīng wán shìgù jīngguò hòu, zhèngrén de shēngyīn kāishǐ fādǒu, shǒu lǐ de bēizi yě chàdiǎn diào xiàlai. After hearing the account of the accident, the witness's voice began to tremble, and the cup in his hand almost fell.
- 他吓得浑身发抖，半天说不出话来。 Tā xià de húnshēn fādǒu, bàntiān shuō bù chū huà lái. He was so frightened that he shook all over and could not speak for a long while.
- 上台前，她紧张得手一直在发抖。 Shàng tái qián, tā jǐnzhāng de shǒu yìzhí zài fādǒu. Before going on stage, she was so nervous that her hands kept trembling.
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