Chinese symbol for “hairdressing”
美发
měi fà
Traditional: 美髮
hairdressing; to give sb's hair a cut or other beauty treatment; beautiful hair
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hairdressing is 美发 (měi fà), defined as: hairdressing; to give sb's hair a cut or other beauty treatment; beautiful hair.
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
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 美发.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美元 | měi yuán | American dollar; US dollar |
| 美丽 (美麗) | měi lì | beautiful |
| 完美 | wán měi | perfect |
| 美女 | měi nǚ | beautiful woman |
| 美好 | měi hǎo | beautiful; fine |
| 美食 | měi shí | culinary delicacy; fine food |
| 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 “hairdressing”.
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.