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.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “alopecia”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 秃发.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 秃头 (禿頭) | tū tóu | to bare one's head; to be bareheaded; to go bald |
| 秃鹰 (禿鷹) | tū yīng | vulture; condor |
| 秃顶 (禿頂) | tū dǐng | bald head |
| 秃鹫 (禿鷲) | tū jiù | vulture; (bird species of China) cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) |
| 秃子 (禿子) | tū zi | bald-headed person; baldy |
| 光秃秃 (光禿禿) | guāng tū tū | bald; bare (no hair, no leaves, no vegetation etc) |
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to 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.