发奋

to make an effort / to push for sth / to work hard

to send out / to show (one's feeling) / to issue / to develop / to make a bundle of money / classifier for gunshots (rounds)

hair / Taiwan pr. [fa3]

to exert oneself (bound form)

to make an effort to become strong (idiom); determined to do better / to pull one's socks up

to prove one's worth through firm resolve (idiom)