発

はつ · hatsu · JLPT N2 · noun

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✈️🚆 発車 (hassha) = depart + vehicle, the word for a train leaving a station

発 is simplified from 發, whose parts are 癶 (feet stepping apart) and 殳 (a hand holding a tool), an old sense of setting out. 出発 (shuppatsu) adds 出 (out) for a general departure.

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