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Chinese symbol for “hairline”

发际线
fà jì xiàn
Traditional: 髮際線
(one's) hairline

The closest CC-CEDICT match for hairline is 发际线 (fà jì xiàn), defined as: (one's) hairline.

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

发 fà
to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
radical 29 ⼜ · 5 strokes
际 jì
border, boundary, juncture
radical 170 ⾩ · 7 strokes
线 xiàn
line, thread, wire; clue, trail
radical 120 ⽷ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 发际线.

WordPinyinMeaning
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")
发现 (發現)fā xiànto notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect
开发 (開發)kāi fāto exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop
发布 (發佈)fā bùvariant of 发布 (fā bù)
国际 (國際)guó jìinternational
实际 (實際)shí jìreality; practice
实际上 (實際上)shí jì shàngin fact; in reality
路线 (路線)lù xiànitinerary; route

See also: Japanese symbol for “hairline”.

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.