案发

Traditional form:

案發

Pinyin (reading):

ànfā

Definitions:

• (of a crime) to occur
• (old) (of a crime) to be discovered
• to investigate a crime on the spot

Characters:

• 案 - file, legal case; bench, table
• 发 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair

Traditional characters:

• 案 - file, legal case; bench, table
• 發 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair