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发扬光大

fā yáng guāng dà

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 發揚光大

发扬光大 (fā yáng guāng dà) means "to develop and promote; to carry forward; to bring to great height of development". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 发扬光大 means

1. to develop and promote
2. to carry forward
3. to bring to great height of development

The characters in 发扬光大

• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 扬yángto raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing
• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely
• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐

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