发 fā
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 又 — and, also, again, in addition
发愣
fālèng
to stare blankly; to be stunned
Characters in this word
愣 lèng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 听到判决结果后，他在走廊里发愣了很久，像是还没有回过神来。 Tīng dào pànjué jiéguǒ hòu, tā zài zǒuláng lǐ fālèng le hěn jiǔ, xiàng shì hái méiyǒu huí guò shén lái. After hearing the verdict, he stood dazed in the corridor for a long time, as if he still had not come to himself.
- 他看着满桌的菜，一时发愣，不知道是谁做的。 Tā kàn zhe mǎn zhuō de cài, yìshí fālèng, bù zhīdào shì shéi zuò de. He looked at the table full of dishes, stunned for a moment, not knowing who had cooked them.
- 老师突然叫我的名字，我一下子发愣了。 Lǎoshī tūrán jiào wǒ de míngzi, wǒ yíxiàzi fālèng le. The teacher suddenly called my name, and I froze for a moment.
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