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Chinese symbol for “alopecia”

秃发
tū fà
Traditional: 禿髮
baldness; hair loss; alopecia; to lose one's hair; to go bald

The closest CC-CEDICT match for alopecia is 秃发 (tū fà), defined as: baldness; hair loss; alopecia; to lose one's hair; to go bald.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

秃 tū
bald
radical 115 ⽲ · 7 strokes
发 fà
to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
radical 29 ⼜ · 5 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “alopecia”

WordPinyinMeaning
脱发 (脫髮)tuō fàto lose one's hair; hair loss; alopecia

Related words

Other words that share a character with 秃发.

WordPinyinMeaning
秃头 (禿頭)tū tóuto bare one's head; to be bareheaded; to go bald
秃鹰 (禿鷹)tū yīngvulture; condor
秃顶 (禿頂)tū dǐngbald head
秃鹫 (禿鷲)tū jiùvulture; (bird species of China) cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus)
秃子 (禿子)tū zibald-headed person; baldy
光秃秃 (光禿禿)guāng tū tūbald; bare (no hair, no leaves, no vegetation etc)
发展 (發展)fā zhǎndevelopment; growth
发生 (發生)fā shēngto happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")

See also: Japanese symbol for “alopecia”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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