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发达

fā dá

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 發達

发达 (fā dá) means "developed, flourishing". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 发达 means

1. well-developed; flourishing
2. to develop; to promote; to expand
3. literaryto achieve fame and fortune; to prosper

The characters in 发达

• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 达dáto attain; to reach; to amount to

Example sentences

• 一般说来，男生的肌肉比女生发达。
  Yībānshuōlái, nánshēng de jīròu bǐ nǚshēng fādá.
  Generally speaking, men are physically stronger than women.
• 中国大陆的沿海城市普遍比内陆城市发达。
  Zhōngguó dàlù de yánhǎi chéngshì pǔbiàn bǐ nèilù chéngshì fādá.
  Chinese coastal cities are generally more developed than the inland ones.
• 因为缺乏的政府的关注，这个区域还不发达。
  Yīnwèi quēfá de zhèngfǔ de guānzhù, zhège qūyù hái bù fādá.
  This area is still underdeveloped because of a lack of interest from the government.
• 尽管美国是个发达国家，却还有些很贫穷的人。
  Even though America is a developed country, it still has some very poor people.
• 我们公司的技术已经达到了发达国家九十年代的水平。
  Our company's technology has already reached the level of a developed country in the 1990s.
• 马不但象征着刚健、高昂、昌盛、发达，还代表着奋斗不止、自强不息的民族精神。
  Mǎ bù dàn xiàngzhēng zhe gāngjiàn, gāo'áng, chāngshèng, fādá, hái dàibiǎo zhe fèndòu bù zhǐ, zìqiángbùxī de mínzú jīngshén.
  The horse does not just represent energy, high spirits, prosperity, development, but also stands for a national spirit of struggling on without stopping, and of striving on without giving up.

Words starting with 发达

• 发达国家fā dá guó jiādeveloped nation
• 发达国fā dá guódeveloped nation
• 发达地区fā dá dì qūdeveloped area

Words containing 发达

• 兴旺发达xīng wàng fā dáprosperous and developing; flourishing
• 肌肉发达jī ròu fā dámuscular
• 头脑简单四肢发达tóu nǎo jiǎn dān sì zhī fā dáall brawn no brains

Where 发达 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Reform, Change & Innovation (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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