开发
kāifā
to develop, to exploit
Part of speech · verb
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 公司开发了一款新软件。The company developed a new piece of software.
- 政府开发了这片荒地。The government developed this wasteland.
Collocations
开发软件开发资源开发市场技术开发
Mnemonic
开 kāi "to open" + 发 fā "to send forth, develop": to open up and bring forth, i.e. to develop. Same as the Korean word gae-bal (開發). Newly cultivating resources, land, technology or products into something useful (开发软件 to develop software, 开发资源 to develop resources). 开 ("to open") is shared with 开辟 (to open up a path): 开发 is developing, 开辟 is opening up. 发 means "to send forth", read fā (发现 to discover).
Related
开辟研发开拓发展
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