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發
發
Translingual
| Traditional | 發 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 発 |
| Simplified | 发 |
Han character
發 (radical 105 癶+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓人弓竹水 (NONHE), four-corner 12247, composition ⿱癶⿰弓殳)
Descendants
Derived characters
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
Chinese
| trad. | 發 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 发 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (癹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 發 | *pad |
| 癹 | *pʰaːd, *baːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pad) : semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 癹 (OC *pʰaːd, *baːd, “sound of bowstring when shooting”).
Compare 髮 (OC *pod), which simplifies to the same character.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): faat3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fat / pot
- Min Nan (POJ): hoat
- Wu (Wiktionary): faq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄚ
- Wade-Giles: fa1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fa
- IPA (key): /fa̠⁵⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: faat3
- Yale: faat
- Cantonese Pinyin: faat8
- IPA (key): /fɑːt̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fat / pot
- Hakka Romanization System: fad` / bod`
- Hagfa Pinyim: fad5 / bod5
- IPA: /fat̚²/, /pot̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat
- Tâi-lô: huat
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoad
- IPA (Xiamen): /huat̚³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /huat̚⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /huat̚³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /huat̚³²/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: faq (T4)
- IPA (key): /fᴀʔ⁵⁵/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 發 |
| 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 | 發 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
fā |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pjot › |
| Old Chinese |
/*Cə.pat/ |
| English | fly forth, send forth |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 發 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 164 |
| Phonetic component |
癹 |
| Rime group |
月 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
髮 |
| Old Chinese |
/*pad/ |
Definitions
發
- to issue
- to distribute
- to depart
- to become; to get into a certain state; to develop; to manifest
- to become wealthy
- Classifier for ammunition.
Compounds
Derived terms from 發
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Japanese
Kanji
發
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 発)
Readings
- Goon: ほち (hochi), ほつ (hotsu)
- Kan’on: はつ (hatsu)
- Kun: あば.く (發く, aba.ku), (rare) おこ.る (發る, oko.ru), (rare) つか.わす (發わす, tsuka.wasu), た.つ (發つ, ta.tsu), (rare) はな.つ (發つ, hana.tsu)
- Nanori: ば (ba)
Korean
Hanja
發 • (bal) (hangeul 발, McCune-Reischauer pal, Yale pal)
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