powerful and influential group

Components
門 meaning component

  Meaning component

mén

  

door

gate

伐 sound component

  Sound component

  

cut down

Evolution

閥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
閥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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powerful and influential group; powerful individual, family or group; clique; (loanword) valve

Most common words with 閥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

clique

阀门

valve (mechanical)

军阀

junta

安全阀

safety valve

财阀

plutocracy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5057% of movies

2921st most common character in movies

2671st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+95A5

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“閥,閥閱,自序也。从門,伐聲,義當通用伐。”


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