生發

Chinese

		to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop
trad. (生發)		生	發
simp. (生发*)		生	发
anagram		發生／发生

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēngfā

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ ㄈㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sang¹ faat³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sng-hoat / seng-hoat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēngfā
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ ㄈㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shengfa
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹-fa¹
    • Yale: shēng-fā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengfa
    • Palladius: шэнфа (šɛnfa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ fä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sang¹ faat³
    • Yale: sāng faat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sang¹ faat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: seng¹ fad³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐŋ⁵⁵ faːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sng-hoat
    • Tâi-lô: sng-huat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: snghoad
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sŋ̍³³ huat̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng-hoat
    • Tâi-lô: sing-huat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: senghoad
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² huat̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ huat̚³²/

Verb

生發

1. to develop; to grow

   • 所寫的事跡，大抵有一點見過或聽到過的緣由，但決不全用這事實，只是採取一端，加以改造，或生發開去，到足以幾乎完全發表我的意思為止。 [MSC, trad.]
     所写的事迹，大抵有一点见过或听到过的缘由，但决不全用这事实，只是采取一端，加以改造，或生发开去，到足以几乎完全发表我的意思为止。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1933, March 5, Lu Xun（魯迅）, How I Came to Write Stories（《我怎麼做起小說來？》）, translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang

     Suǒ xiě de shìjì, dàdǐ yǒu yīdiǎn jiàn guò huò tīng dào guò de yuányóu, dàn juébù quán yòng zhè shìshí, zhǐshì cǎiqǔ yīduān, jiāyǐ gǎizào, huò shēngfā kāi qù, dào zúyǐ jīhū wánquán fābiǎo wǒ de yìsi wéizhǐ. [Pinyin]

     The happenings I described generally arose from something I had seen or heard, but I never relied entirely on facts. I just took one occurrence and modified or expanded it till it expressed what I had in mind.