髮

See also: 发 and 髪

Translingual

shinjitai	髪
simplified	发
traditional	髮

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 髟 + 犮

Han character

髮 (radical 190 髟+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹戈大水 (SHIKE), 尸竹戈大大 (SHIKK), four-corner 7244₇, composition ⿱髟犮)

Descendants

• 髪 发

References

• KangXi: page 1453, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45400
• Dae Jaweon: page 1984, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4521, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9AEE

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Chinese

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trad.		髮
simp.		发

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fà (fa⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faat³, fat³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): fat
• Min Nan (POJ): hoat
• Wu (WT Romanisation): faq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fà
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fa⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fah
    • IPA ^(key): /fa̠⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: faat³, fat³
    • Yale: faat, fat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸, fat⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /fɑːt̚³/, /fɐt̚³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fat
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /fat̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat
    • Tâi-lô: huat
    • IPA (Taipei): /huat̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: faq (T4)
    • IPA ^(key): /fᴀʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (髮, reconstructed)
Character (髮), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 月 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 方伐切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pʉɐt̚/	/pi̯wɐt̚/	/piuɐt̚/	/pʷiɐt̚/	/puat̚/	/pĭwɐn/	/piuɐt̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (髮, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
髮								fà								‹ pjot ›								/*pot/								root; hair (of head)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
髮					151					犮					月					3					髮					/*pod/

Definitions

髮

1. hair

   頭髮 / 头发  ―  tóufa  ―  hair

See also

• 發／发 (fā)

Compounds

Derived terms

• 洗髮劑／洗发剂

• 洗髮水／洗发水

• 洗髮精／洗发精

• 護髮素／护发素

• 髮乳／发乳

• 髮刷／发刷

• 髮卡／发卡

• 髮型／发型

• 髮夾／发夹

• 髮套／发套

• 髮妻／发妻

• 髮屋／发屋

• 髮帶／发带

• 髮廊／发廊

• 髮式／发式

• 髮指眥裂／发指眦裂

• 髮油／发油

• 髮短心長／发短心长

• 髮箍／发箍

• 髮網／发网

• 髮膠／发胶

• 髮菜／发菜

• 髮蠟／发蜡

• 髮辮／发辫

• 髮際／发际

• 髮飾／发饰

• 髮髻／发髻

• 髮鬢／发鬓

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Japanese

Kanji

髮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 髪)

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Readings

• On: はつ (hatsu)
• Kun: かみ (kami)

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Korean

Hanja

髮 (bal) (hangeul 발, McCune-Reischauer pal, Yale pal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

髮 (phát)

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