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髮

髮

See also: 发 and 髪

Translingual

Traditional 髮
Shinjitai 髪
Simplified 发

Han character

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

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

Chinese

trad. 髮
simp. 发

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (犮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
軷 *boːds, *boːd
韍 *bruds, *pud
祓 *pods, *pʰud
蛂 *blɯːd
拔 *bruːd, *boːd, *bod
菝 *bruːd, *boːd
袚 *poːd
茇 *poːd
盋 *poːd
帗 *poːd, *pud
跋 *boːd
魃 *boːd
䣮 *boːd
馛 *boːd
炦 *boːd
颰 *boːd, *pod
妭 *boːd
犮 *boːd
胈 *boːd
鈸 *boːd
苃 *boːd
坺 *boːd, *bod
髮 *pod
冹 *pod, *pud
瞂 *bod
紱 *pud
黻 *pud
翇 *pud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pod) : 髟 + 犮.

Compare 發 (OC *pad), which simplifies to the same character.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 髮
Mandarin Beijing /fa⁵¹/
Harbin /fa²¹³/
Tianjin /fɑ¹³/
Jinan /fa²¹³/
Qingdao /fa⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /fa²⁴/
Xi'an /fa²¹/
Xining /fa⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /fa¹³/
Lanzhou /fa¹³/
Ürümqi /fa²¹³/
Wuhan /fa²¹³/
Chengdu /fa³¹/
Guiyang /fa²¹/
Kunming /fa̠³¹/
Nanjing /fɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /fɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /faʔ²/
Pingyao /xuʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /faʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /faʔ⁵/
Suzhou /faʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /fɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ho²¹³/
Hui Shexian /faʔ²¹/
Tunxi /fuːə⁵/
Xiang Changsha /fa²⁴/
Xiangtan /ɸɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /faʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /fat̚¹/
Taoyuan /fɑt̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fat̚³/
Nanning /fat̚³³/
Hong Kong /fat̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /huat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /puɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huak̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /fak̚⁵/
Rime
Character 髮
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 月 (68)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 方伐切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʉɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʷiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /puat̚/
Li
Rong		 /piuɐt̚/
Wang
Li		 /pĭwɐt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯wɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fa
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 髮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fà
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjot ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pot/
English 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 髮
Reading # 1/1
No. 151
Phonetic
component		 犮
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 髮
Old
Chinese		 /*pod/

Definitions

髮

  1. hair
    頭髮 / 头发  ―  tóufa  ―  hair

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

髮

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 髪)

  1. hair (specifically on one's head; does not indicate body hair)

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

髮 (phát)

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