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閥: clique, lineage

Also: pedigree, faction, clan

JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

門 carries the meaning · 伐 gives the sound

14 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

バツbatsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 派閥はばつ
  • 財閥ざいばつzaibatsu; financial conglomerate
  • 閥ばつclique; clan; faction
  • 学閥がくばつalma mater clique; old school tie

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine the grand entrance to a temple or a fortress! Two heavy wooden doors stand ready to swing wide.”
More in the 門 gate story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
門

Also built on gate (門)

All 11

Also read バツ

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
閥 clique · 伐
vs閲 review · 兌
閥 has 伐 where 閲 has 兌.
In ChineseSimplified 阀 · traditional, as in Japanese · fá

Japan keeps the traditional form 閥; mainland China simplifies it to 阀.

Simplified
阀 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
閥 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin fá most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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