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髮

fā, fà

issue

Phonosemantic compound. 髟 represents the meaning and 犮 represents the sound.

Components
髟 meaning component

髟  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

犮 sound component

犮  Sound component

bá, quǎn

  

pull up

Evolution

髮 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
髮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
髮 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
髮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

发 (髮) 

fà

hair; Taiwan pr. [fǎ]

Most common words with 髮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

发生

to happen

发现

to find

发展

growth

发

to send out

开发

to develop

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pot

pjot

fà

root; hair (of head)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.7277% of movies

87th most common character in movies

47th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

发

Unicode

U+9AEE

Shuowen

“髮，根也。从髟，犮聲。，髮或从首。，古文。”


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