发 fā
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 又 — and, also, again, in addition
发源地
fāyuándì
place of origin; source
Characters in this word
源 yuán
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 原 source, origin, beginning
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 学者普遍认为，黄河流域是中华文明的重要发源地之一。 Xuézhě pǔbiàn rènwéi, Huáng Hé liúyù shì Zhōnghuá wénmíng de zhòngyào fāyuándì zhī yī. Scholars generally believe that the Yellow River basin is one of the important cradles of Chinese civilisation.
- 中国是茶的发源地，茶文化已有几千年历史。 Zhōngguó shì chá de fāyuándì, chá wénhuà yǐ yǒu jǐ qiān nián lìshǐ. China is the birthplace of tea, and tea culture has a history of several thousand years.
- 这个小村子是当地有名的民间舞蹈的发源地。 Zhège xiǎo cūnzi shì dāngdì yǒumíng de mínjiān wǔdǎo de fāyuándì. This little village is the birthplace of a well-known local folk dance.
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