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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发 stroke order animation

Words containing 发

Word Meaning
fan; zealot
burning hot
to deal (cards)
finding
Space Shuttle Discovery
teeing ground (golf)
to have sexual relations with sb; to have dealings with
to ache; to feel painful; to be sore
to lose color; to turn pale; to go white
to stare; to be fixed (of eyes); to look blank
to get sleepy
to text; to send SMS messages
(coll.) to go crazy; to lose it; unhinged
to emanate from; to give rise to (sth good)
baking powder
cyanosis (blue skin due to lack of oxygen in blood)
sound device
vocal organs; vocal cords
intonation
powerful words that wake people up
developmental biology
to become crisp; to become brittle
diction; enunciation
to swell up; swelling