束发

Traditional form:

束髮

Pinyin (reading):

shùfà

Definitions:

• to tie up one's hair
• (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)

Characters:

• 束 - to bind, to control, to restrain; bale
• 发 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair

Traditional characters:

• 束 - to bind, to control, to restrain; bale
• 髮 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair