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Kanji Information Sheet for 発 ( PDF version )
English: discharge departure publish emit start from disclose | On-Yomi: ハツ ホツ | Kun-Yomi: た.つ あば.く おこ.る つか.わす はな.つ ば わ |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 癶 (はつがしら) – dotted tent
Henshall Mnemonic: discharged with two bent legs and funny feet
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #32 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #32 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 爆発 [ばくはつ]
(n,vs) explosion; detonation; eruption [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発見 [はっけん]
(n,vs) discovery; detection; finding [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発行 [はっこう]
(n) issue (publications) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発車 [はっしゃ]
(n) departure of a vehicle [K] [D] [Jisho] - 出発 [しゅっぱつ]
(n,vs) departure [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発達 [はったつ]
(n,vs) development; growth [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発展 [はってん]
(n,vs) development; growth [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発表 [はっぴょう]
(n,vs) announcement; publication [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発明 [はつめい]
(n,vs) invention [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
- 発揮 [はっき]
(n,vs) exhibition; demonstration; utilization; display [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発射 [はっしゃ]
(n,vs) firing; shooting; discharge; catapult [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発条 [ばね]
(n) spring (e.g. coil, leaf) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 蒸発 [じょうはつ]
(n,vs) evaporation; unexplained disappearance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発想 [はっそう]
(n) expression (music); conceptualization [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発電 [はつでん]
(n,vs) generation (e.g. power) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発売 [はつばい]
(n,vs) sale [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 発 [はつ]
(n,suf) departure; beginning; counter for gunshots [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発育 [はついく]
(n,vs) (physical) growth; development [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発芽 [はつが]
(n,vs) burgeoning [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発掘 [はっくつ]
(n,vs) (1) excavation; exhumation; (2) discovery (e.g. new talent) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発言 [はつげん]
(n) utterance; speech; proposal [K] [D] [Jisho] - 活発 [かっぱつ]
(adj-na,n) vigor; active [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発作 [ほっさ]
(n) fit; spasm [K] [D] [Jisho] - 始発 [しはつ]
(n) first train [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 自発的 [じはつてき]
(adj-na) spontaneous; voluntary [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発する [はっする]
(vs-s) to fire (a gun); to emit; to give forth [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発案 [はつあん]
(n) idea; suggestion; proposal [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発煙 [はつえん]
(n) emitting smoke; fuming [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発煙筒 [はつえんとう]
(n) smoke candle [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発火 [はっか]
(n,vs) firing; ignition [K] [D] [Jisho] - 散発 [さんぱつ]
(n,vs) sporadic; scattering [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発覚 [はっかく]
(n,vs) detection; coming to light [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発刊 [はっかん]
(n,vs) publish; start (new) publication [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発起人 [ほっきにん]
(n) originator; promoter [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発給 [はっきゅう]
(n) issuance [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発禁 [はっきん]
(n) (1) sale prohibited (abbr); (2) suppression (of a book) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発言権 [はつげんけん]
(n) right to speak [K] [D] [Jisho] - 未発表 [みはっぴょう]
unpublished; not yet announced [K] [D] [Jisho] - 一発 [いっぱつ]
(n-adv,n-t) (1) one shot; round; charge; (2) homerun (baseball) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発光 [はっこう]
(n,vs) luminescence; radiation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 連発 [れんぱつ]
(n,vs) running continuously; firing in rapid succession [K] [D] [Jisho] - 再開発 [さいかいはつ]
(n,vs) redevelopment [K] [D] [Jisho] - 北海道開発庁長官 [ほっかいどうかいはつちょうちょうかん]
Director General of Hokkaido Development Agency [K] [D] [Jisho] - 電源開発 [でんげんかいはつ]
electric power resource development [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発効 [はっこう]
(n) coming into effect [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発酵 [はっこう]
(n,vs) fermentation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 沖縄開発庁長官 [おきなわかいはつちょうちょうかん]
Director General of Okinawa Development Agency [K] [D] [Jisho] - 啓発 [けいはつ]
(n,vs) enlightenment; development; edification [K] [D] [Jisho] - 発散 [はっさん]
(n,vs) letting feelings out; emitting; emanating; divergence (physics) [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.