発行

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The spelling is 発行, read はっこう, and it combines 発, meaning send out or originate, with 行, meaning carry out.
• Basic usage: 発行 means publishing a periodical or formally issuing a card, certificate, or similar item.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Publishing recurring material and issuing an identifying item
  • Both examples use the form 発行. A library publishes a community newsletter every month, while reception issues new membership cards to individual users.
• A library's monthly newsletter and cards issued at reception
  • 図書館が地域の情報誌を毎月発行している。 — The library publishes a community newsletter every month.
  • 新しい会員証は受付で発行されます。 — New membership cards are issued at reception.