红发 (hóngfà): red hair

Meanings

1 red hair
2 redhead

Characters

红

hair (= traditional 髮)

Examples

她染了一头红发,非常显眼。

Tā rǎn le yī tóu hóngfà, fēicháng xiǎnyǎn.

She dyed her hair bright red — very eye-catching.

在动漫里,红发的角色通常很热血。

Zài dòngmàn lǐ, hóngfà de juésè tōngcháng hěn rèxuè.

In anime, redheaded characters are usually hot-blooded.

Tips

culture

红发 most famously refers to 红发香克斯 (Hóngfà Xiāngkèsī), Red-Haired Shanks from One Piece (海贼王) — one of the most iconic red-haired characters in Chinese pop culture. The simplified 发 here = 髮 (hair), not 發 (to send/issue), so the traditional spelling matters.