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Chinese symbol for “hairstyle”

发型
fà xíng
Traditional: 髮型
hairstyle; coiffure; hairdo

The closest CC-CEDICT match for hairstyle is 发型 (fà xíng), defined as: hairstyle; coiffure; hairdo.

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
型 xíng
pattern, model, type; mold; law
radical 32 ⼟ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “hairstyle”

WordPinyinMeaning
发式 (髮式)fà shìhairstyle; coiffure

Related words

Other words that share a character with 发型.

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)
大型dà xínglarge; large-scale
类型 (類型)lèi xíngtype; kind; category; (computer programming) type
模型mó xíngmodel; mold

See also: Japanese symbol for “hairstyle”.

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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