What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 发生 mean?

发生 fāshēng

to happen; to occur; to take place

Its characters

  1. 发 fā to send
  2. 生 shēng to give birth to

In a sentence

昨天这里发生了什么事? What happened here yesterday?

故事发生在一千六百多年前。

From 梁山伯与祝英台 · The Butterfly Lovers

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