powerful individual, family or group
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阀 is a 9 stroke, simplified Chinese character and is pronounced as fá in the second tone.
In traditional Chinese the character 閥 is used.
It is made up of the components 门 (gate) and 伐 (to cut down).
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Pronunciation
We found 1 pronunciation for 阀
Definitions for 阀 pronounced as fá
- powerful individual, family or group
- clique
- (loanword) valve
Vocabulary
The most common words for 阀 — see all
- military clique
- junta
- warlord
- valve (mechanical)
- plutocracy
- monopolistic corporation, esp. prewar Japanese zaibatsu
- Korean chaebol
- plutocrat
- tycoon
- oligarch
- financial magnate