to send out; to issue; to develop

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 47th character
Radical ⼜ (29.3)
Strokes 5
Index # 339
TRADITIONAL ,

Definitions

发 fā
  1. 1. to send out
  2. 2. to issue
  3. 3. to develop
  4. 4. to show (one's feeling)
  5. 5. to make a bundle of money
  6. 6. classifier for gunshots (rounds)
发 fà
  1. 1. hair
  2. 2. Taiwan pr.

Stroke order

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Words containing 发

Word Meaning
(idiom) thought-provoking; to give one food for thought
starting pistol
period of development; puberty
to leaven dough; to make bread
old and gray-haired
to shave one's head; fig. to become a monk or nun
to broadcast
hair conditioner
to put out to contract
to become anxious; to get impatient; to fret
variant of fā chù
embarrassed; to feel embarrassment; disconcerted
origin; beginning; to originate
(of goods) to dispatch; shipping; shipment
(generated) electrical energy
(literary) gray hair
to supply again (sth lost); to reissue
to issue; to distribute; to publish along with
bun hair extension
barbershop
once it gets started there's no stopping it
to be impossible to stop once started
to not say a word (idiom)
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
teach only when student struggles to speak