issue, dispatch, send out; hair

DEFINITIONS

发 fā
  • to send out
  • to show (one's feeling)
  • to issue
  • to develop
  • to make a bundle of money
  • classifier for gunshots (rounds)
发 fà
  • hair
  • Taiwan pr. [fa3]

STROKES

WORDS

油 huī fā yóu volatile oil (in general); gasoline
难数 zhuó fà nán shǔ lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom); fig. innumerable (crimes)
放射性光材料 fàng shè xìng fā guāng cái liào radiophosphor
新闻布会 xīn wén fā bù huì news conference
新闻言人 xīn wén fā yán rén spokesman
普列谢茨克卫星射场 pǔ liè xiè cí kè wèi xīng fā shè chǎng Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
有意栽花花不,无心插柳柳成阴 yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree; fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect; well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
shù fà to bind one's hair; headband
柴油动机 chái yóu fā dòng jī diesel engine
电 hé fā diàn nuclear power generation
电厂 hé fā diàn chǎng nuclear power plant
榴弹射器 liú dàn fā shè qì grenade launcher
款到货 kuǎn dào fā huò dispatch upon receipt of payment
正电子射层析 zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè céng xī positron emission tomography (PET)
正电子射断层照相术 zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè duàn céng zhào xiāng shù positron emission tomography (PET)
正电子射计算机断层 zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè jì suàn jī duàn céng PET, positron emission tomography (medical imaging method)
正电子射体层 zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè tǐ céng PET, positron emission tomography (medical imaging method)
不爽 háo fà bù shuǎng not to deviate one hair's breadth (idiom); to be extremely accurate
水力电站 shuǐ lì fā diàn zhàn hydroelectric power plant
汽轮电机 qì lún fā diàn jī steam turbine electric generator
客 shā fā kè couchsurfing; couchsurfer
洋浦经济开区 yáng pǔ jīng jì kāi fā qū Yangpu Economic Development Zone, Hainan
乳 xǐ fà rǔ shampoo
剂 xǐ fà jì shampoo
水 xǐ fà shuǐ shampoo (liquid)