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Character Mind Map: 发 send

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ID: 4212 Elementary
In Chinese, you often encounter single characters that have multiple related meanings. This has the potential to confuse learners because sometimes it is hard to make connections between component characters and their meanings within multiple-character words. That's why we created this Character Mind Map series, where we focus on characters and the words they make up. Today, we're talking about the character 发. You may know its original meaning which is 'to send', but it's so much more than that! When combined with different words, the character 发 can mean to develop or to occur. Let's check them out!
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
短信 duǎnxìn text message
邮件 yóujiàn email
忘记 wàngjì to forget
烧 shāo to burn
发
fā 发
to send out
发短信
fā 发duǎnxìn 短信
to send messages
你常发短信吗
nǐ 你cháng 常fā 发duǎnxìn 短信ma 吗
Do you often send messages?
我昨天发短信给你
wǒ 我zuótiān 昨天fā 发duǎnxìn 短信gěi 给nǐ 你
I texted you yesterday.
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