fā
send out
Depicts a hand pulling back an arrow (殳) in a bow (弓). 癶 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.pat | pjot | fā | fly forth, send forth |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.7277% of movies
87th most common character in movies
47th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+767C |
Shuowen | “發,發也。从弓,癹聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.880-881
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