发 (fā): meaning and stroke order
发 (fā) means to send out, to show (one's feeling), to issue, to develop, to make a bundle of money.
发
- Simplified
- 发
- Traditional
- 發, 髮
- Pinyin
- fā · fà
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Stroke order of 发
发
- fā to send out; to show (one's feeling)
- fà hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 發
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Meaning of 发
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fā
Traditional 發
- to send out
- to show (one's feeling)
- to issue
- to develop
- to make a bundle of money
- classifier for gunshots (rounds)
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fà
Traditional 髮
- hair
- Taiwan pr. [fa3]
Radical and structure
- 发
- Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 5 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 发
- 发生 fā shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 发白 fā bái to turn pale; to lose color
- 白发 bái fà white or gray hair; CL:根[gen1]
- 头发 tóu fa hair (on the head)
- 出发 chū fā to set off; to start (on a journey)
- 发音 fā yīn to pronounce; pronunciation
- 发言 fā yán to make a speech; statement
- 沙发 shā fā sofa (loanword); CL:條|条[tiao2],張|张[zhang1]
- 发现 fā xiàn to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect
- 案发 àn fā (of a crime) to occur; (old) (of a crime) to be discovered
- 告发 gào fā to lodge an accusation; accusation (law)
- 发抖 fā dǒu to tremble; to shake
发 in our stories
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四千多年前，黄河发了一场大洪水，房屋被冲走，田地变成了一片汪洋。
sìqiān duō nián qián Huáng Hé fā le yì cháng dà hóngshuǐ fángwū bèi chōng zǒu tiándì biànchéng le yí piàn wāngyáng
More than four thousand years ago the Yellow River flooded: houses were swept away and the fields became a vast sheet of water.
From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
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那天晚上，钟远只给他发了一条短信：“你赢了。祝你别后悔。”
nà tiān wǎnshang Zhōng Yuǎn zhǐ gěi tā fā le yì tiáo duǎnxìn nǐ yíng le zhù nǐ bié hòuhuǐ
That night Zhong Yuan sent him just one text: "You win. Hope you don't regret it."
From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 发
- Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
- The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).