閥 (fat6 | fa2) : powerful and influential person/group

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閥

fat6

fa2

[1] powerful and influential person/group
[2] meritorious or distinguished family in feudal times
[3] [loanword] valve

Stroke count: 14

Level: 3

Radical: (#169)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

閥 / 阀

This word has been viewed 2633 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 18th Mar 2011 01:16

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軍閥 gwan1 fat6 jun1 fa2 = warlord

財閥 coi4 fat6 cai2 fa2 = a financial magnate, a tycoon

北洋軍閥 bak1 joeng4 gwan1 fat6 bei3 yang2 jun1 fa2 = the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)

門閥 mun4 fat6 men2 fa2 = the Great Families (dominant feudal clans during the medieval period)

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Decimal representation of this word: 閥
Unicode code for this character: U+95a5 (off-site link)

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