powerful individual, family or group / clique / (loanword) valve

閥 character breakdown

to cut down / to fell / to dispatch an expedition against / to attack / to boast / Taiwan pr. [fa1]

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is marching up and down in the ashram's kitchen (a2). Rosa Luxemburg (亻) is really annoyed and cuts him down (伐) with a spear (戈). Frankenstein's Monster gets up and attacks (伐) her in revenge.
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gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

Characters with 閥 as component

閥 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 閥

valve (mechanical)
military clique / junta / warlord
plutocracy / monopolistic corporation, esp. prewar Japanese zaibatsu / Korean chaebol / plutocrat / tycoon / oligarch / financial magnate
Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929
the Zhili faction of the Northern Warlords
a sleeve valve
incessant fighting between warlords
rich and powerful family
top valve / head valve
the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)
Fengtian clique (of northern warlords)
bottom valve / foot valve
Guangxi warlord faction, from 1911-1930

Sentences with 閥

閥 currently does not appear in any sentence.