A kanji
発
departure, discharge, publish, emit, start from, disclose, counter for gunshots
- 9 strokes
- Taught in grade 3 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 32 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
ハツ、ホツ
Kun'yomi
た.つ、あば.く、おこ.る、つか.わす、はな.つ
A dot marks where the okurigana begin.
Stroke order
Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.
Shapes inside it
The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 発 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.
Written with 発 31 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N4 · 2 words
JLPT N3 · 9 words
JLPT N2 · 7 words
JLPT N1 · 13 words
- 反発はんぱつrepelling, rebound, oppose
- 活発かっぱつvigor, active
- 再発さいはつreturn, relapse, reoccurrence
- 開発かいはつdevelopment, exploitation
- 発育はついく(physical) growth, development
- 発芽はつがgermination
- 発掘はっくつexcavation, exhumation; discovery (e.g., new talent)
- 発言はつげんutterance, speech, proposal
- 発生はっせいoutbreak, spring forth, occurrence
- 始発しはつfirst train
- 発作ほっさfit, attack
- 発足ほっそくstarting, inauguration
- 発病はつびょうattack, to become sick
Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 発.
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