Kanji: 発

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JLPT Level:	JLPT N4 (upper beginner level)
Kanken Level:	Kanken Level 8 (completion of 3rd grade)
Grade:	Taught during the 3rd grade in Japan
Radical:	癶 Radical name: はつがしら
Meaning:	Discharge, departure, publish, emit, start from, disclose, counter for gunshots
Usage:	Appears very frequently in Japanese newspapers; only about 30 kanji are used more often.

JLPT Level	Word	Meaning
N4	出発(しゅっぱつ)する	to depart
N4	発音(はつおん)	pronunciation
N3	出発(しゅっぱつ)	departure
N3	爆発(ばくはつ)	explosion, detonation, eruption
N3	発見(はっけん)	discovery, detection, finding
N3	発行(はっこう)	issue (publications)
N3	発車(はっしゃ)	departure of a vehicle
N3	発達(はったつ)	development, growth
N3	発展(はってん)	development, growth
N3	発表(はっぴょう)	announcement, publication
N3	発明(はつめい)	invention
N2	蒸発(じょうはつ)	evaporation, unexplained disappearance
N2	発(た)つ	to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
N2	発揮(はっき)	exhibition, demonstration, utilization, display
N2	発射(はっしゃ)	firing, shooting, discharge, catapult
N2	発想(はっそう)	expression (music), conceptualization
N2	発電(はつでん)	generation (e.g. power)
N2	発売(はつばい)	sale
N1	開発(かいはつ)	development, exploitation
N1	活発(かっぱつ)	vigor, active
N1	再発(さいはつ)	return, relapse, reoccurrence
N1	始発(しはつ)	first train
N1	発掘(はっくつ)	excavation, exhumation
N1	発生(はっせい)	outbreak, spring forth, occurrence, incidence, origin
N1	発足(はっそく)	starting, inauguration
N1	発(はつ)	departure, beginning, counter for gunshots
N1	発育(はついく)	(physical) growth, development
N1	発芽(はつが)	burgeoning
N1	発言(はつげん)	utterance, speech, proposal
N1	発病(はつびょう)	attack (disease)
N1	反発(はんぱつ)	repelling, rebound, recover, oppose
N1	発条(ばね)	spring (e.g. coil leaf)
N1	発作(ほっさ)	fit, spasm