発

Meaning

発 centers on the idea of something emerging or being sent out from a starting point: departing, discharging, emitting, publishing, or disclosing. The counter for gunshots is a natural extension of this outward release.

• 発売はつばい
  N3

  sale; offering for sale; putting on sale; putting on the market; release (for sale)

• 発表はっぴょう
  N4

  announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known; breaking (news story); expressing (one's opinion); releasing; unveiling

• 開発かいはつ
  N2

  development; cultivation; application

• 発見はっけん
  N4

  discovery; detection; finding

• 発生はっせい
  N2

  occurrence; incidence; outbreak; birth (e.g. of civilization)

• 発はつ
  N2

  departure; departing from ...; leaving at (e.g. 8:30)

• 発言はつげん
  N2

  statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal

• 爆発ばくはつ
  N3

  explosion; detonation; blast; blowing up; eruption

• 発展はってん
  N3

  development; growth; expansion; extension; flourishing

• 発行はっこう
  N3

  publication (of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); issue

• 発射はっしゃ
  N2

  firing (esp. a rocket or missile); launching; shooting; discharge; catapult

• 発電はつでん
  N2

  generation of electricity; power generation

• 出発しゅっぱつ
  N4

  departure; leaving; setting off

• 原発げんぱつ

  nuclear power plant; nuclear power generation

• 発揮はっき
  N2

  show (of power, ability, etc.); exhibition; demonstration; display; manifestation

• 発信はっしん
  N1

  dispatch; despatch; transmission; submission

• 発達はったつ
  N3

  development; growth

• 反発はんぱつ
  N1

  opposition; rebellion; revolt; resistance; backlash; refusal

• 発想はっそう
  N2

  idea; conception

• 発明はつめい
  N3

  invention

• 発覚はっかく
  N1

  detection (of a plot, fraud, etc.); discovery; coming to light; being uncovered

• 発動はつどう

  putting into operation

• 発音はつおん
  N4

  pronunciation

• 告発こくはつ

  indictment; prosecution; complaint

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