閥

See also: 阀

閥	U+95A5, 閥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95A5

← 閤
[U+95A4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

閦 →
[U+95A6]

Translingual

Han character

閥 (radical 169, 門+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓人戈 (ANOI), four-corner 7725₃, composition ⿵門伐)

References

KangXi: page 1334, character 19

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41308

Dae Jaweon: page 1840, character 25

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4297, character 1

Unihan data for U+95A5

Chinese

trad.		閥
simp.		阀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (伐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
茷	paːds, bads, *bad
筏	paːd, bad
伐	*bad
閥	*bad
垡	*bad
栰	*bad

Etymology

Meaning "valve" is borrowed from English valve.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fá (fa²)
(Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fat⁶
Min Nan (POJ): hoa̍t

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fá
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˊ
  - Wade–Giles: fa²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: far
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fá
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fat⁶
  - Yale: faht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fed⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa̍t
  - Tâi-lô: hua̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoat
  - IPA (Xiamen): /huat̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /huat̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /huat̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /huat̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: /bʉɐt̚/▼

Rime
Character	閥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	月 (68)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	房越切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/biuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buat̚/
Li Rong	/biuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/bĭwɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fá

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*bad/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	閥
Reading #	1/1
No.	2861
Phonetic component	伐
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	伐
Old Chinese	/*bad/
Notes	古作伐

Definitions

閥

contribution
family status
powerful and influential group
valve

Compounds

制水閥／制水阀
北洋軍閥／北洋军阀 (Běiyáng Jūnfá)
名閥／名阀
婚閥／婚阀
學閥／学阀 (xuéfá)
安全閥／安全阀 (ānquánfá)

官閥／官阀
排泥閥／排泥阀
減壓閥／减压阀
空氣閥／空气阀
財閥／财阀 (cáifá)
軍閥／军阀 (jūnfá)

門閥／门阀
閘閥／闸阀
閥族／阀族
閥閱／阀阅
黨閥／党阀 (dǎngfá)

Japanese

Kanji

閥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

powerful and influential group; a clique

Readings

Go-on: ぼち (bochi)
Kan-on: はつ (hatsu)
Kan’yō-on: ばつ (batsu, Jōyō)
Kun: いえがら (iegara, 閥); いさお (isao, 閥)

Korean

Hanja

閥 • (beol) (hangeul 벌, revised beol, McCune–Reischauer pŏl, Yale pel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

閥 (phiệt)

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