发起 – vocab dash

发起fāqǐ

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Meanings

1. to originate

2. to initiate

3. to launch (an attack, an initiative etc)

4. to start

5. to propose sth (for the first time)

Characters used

发to issue 起to rise

Examples2

敌人dírén对duì我们wǒmen发起fāqǐ了le攻击gōngjī。

The enemy launched an attack on us.

世卫组织ShìwèiZǔzhī负责人fùzérén于yú周一Zhōuyī表示biǎoshì，他tā将jiāng“在zài条件tiáojiàn合适héshì的de情况qíngkuàng下xià尽快jǐnkuài”发起fāqǐ对duì本běn机构jīgòu针对zhēnduì新冠xīnguān疫情yìqíng应对yìngduì情况qíngkuàng的de独立dúlì调查diàochá。

The head of the World Health Organization said Monday he will begin an independent evaluation of the U.N. health agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic “at the earliest appropriate moment.”