First opened Tuesday, January 24, 2012
反発
はんぱつ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
repelling, rebound, oppose
In hanpatsu, 発 is a daiyōji replacing 撥.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
若者達は本来、親の考えに対して反発するものだ。
It is quite natural for young people to rebel against their parents.
財界では、法案提出断念に反発を強めているそうだ。
In the financial world opposition is apparently increasing against the withdrawal of the proposed bill.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “発 is a daiyōji replacing 撥.”
Source: Wiktionary: 反発 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).