發

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.3 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

shinjitai	発
simplified	发
traditional	發

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 弓 (“‘bow’”) + phonetic 癹 (“‘sound of bowstring when shooting’”)

To shoot with a bow.

[edit] Han character

發 (radical 105 癶+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓人弓竹水 (NONHE), four-corner 1224₇, composition ⿱癶⿰弓殳, ⿻癹弓)

1. issue, dispatch, send out, emit

[edit] Descendants

• Simplifications: 発 发

[edit] Derived terms

• 橃 癈 廢 撥 鏺 䚨

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 784, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22669
• Dae Jaweon: page 1194, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2761, character 4
• Unihan data for U+767C

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

發 (jyutping faat3, Yale faat3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

發

[edit] Readings

• On: ほつ (hotsu), はつ (hatsu)
• Kun: たつ (tatsu), はなつ (hanatsu), ひらく (hiraku), あばく (abaku), つかわす (tsukawasu)

• Shinjitai: 発

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

發 (hangeul 발, revised bal, McCune-Reischauer pal, Yale pal)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

發 (simplified 发, pinyin bō (bo1), fā (fa1), Wade-Giles po¹, fa¹, fa⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 發明

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

發 (*biæt)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

發 (phát, phắt, phết, phút)