发 fā
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 又 — and, also, again, in addition
发扬
fāyáng
to carry forward; to develop
Characters in this word
扬 yáng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 昜 bright, glorious
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 学校希望通过校史教育发扬艰苦奋斗的传统。 Xuéxiào xīwàng tōngguò xiàoshǐ jiàoyù fāyáng jiānkǔ fèndòu de chuántǒng. The school hopes to carry forward the tradition of hard work through education about its history.
- 我们要发扬互相帮助的好传统。 Wǒmen yào fāyáng hùxiāng bāngzhù de hǎo chuántǒng. We should carry forward the good tradition of helping one another.
- 他把爷爷的手艺发扬下去，开了一家小木工坊。 Tā bǎ yéye de shǒuyì fāyáng xiàqu, kāi le yì jiā xiǎo mùgōngfáng. He carried his grandfather's craft forward by opening a small carpentry workshop.
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