發 — Chinese character
發
fā
to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
- Pinyin
- fā
- Radical
- 105 ⽨ (Dotted Tent)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 癶 弓 殳
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bow; meaning component 弓; sound component 癶
- Simplified
- 发
- Japanese
- 發 as a kanji
發 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Analects 3 · Art of War 11 · I Ching 2 · Mencius 12 · Zhuangzi 28 · Great Learning 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 4
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 12
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 39
- Analects 2.9
- Analects 7.8
- Analects 7.18
- Art of War 5.15
- Art of War 7.4
- Art of War 11.28
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.