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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
fá | fa2
English translation
clique, valve; a powerful and influential group

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Mén

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

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gate

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

门伐

Semantic compound

Mén

Phonetic compound

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chuí 标准 biāozhǔn 阀杆耦合 ǒu hé 设计 shèjì yòng .

Hammer blow and standard valve stem coupling designs available.

zhù yàng Yìng 润滑 rùn huá , nèi yāo Jué .

The valve should require no lubrication, and contain no " dead " volumes.

jìn 气阀卡住 kǎ zhù le 关不上

The intake valve was jammed open.

换掉 le huài 阀门 fá mén

He replaced a dud valve.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
clique
阀门 fá mén valve (mechanical)閥門
军阀 jūn fá junta軍閥
安全阀 ān quán fá safety valve安全閥
财阀 cái fá plutocracy財閥
门阀 mén fá rich and powerful family門閥
北洋军阀 Běi yáng Jūn fá the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)北洋軍閥
节流阀 jié liú fá a throttle節流閥
奉系军阀 Fèng xì jūn fá Fengtian clique (of northern warlords)奉系軍閥
皖系军阀 Wǎn xì jūn fá Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929皖系軍閥

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