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

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1334, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41308
Dae Jaweon: page 1840, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4297, character 1
Unihan data for U+95A5

Chinese

trad.		閥
simp.		阀
2nd round simp.		伐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 閥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *bad): semantic 門 + phonetic 伐 (OC *bad).

Etymology

Meaning "valve" is borrowed from English valve.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fá (fa²)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fat⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): huăk
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huah⁷ / huoh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hoa̍t

(Teochew, Peng'im): huag⁸
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁸vaq / ⁸vaeq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fá
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fá
  - Wade–Giles: fa²
  - Yale: fá
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: far
  - Palladius: фа (fa)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fat⁶
  - Yale: faht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fed⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: huăk
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaʔ⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huah⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hua̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huoh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoʔ⁴/
Southern Min
- (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/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: huag⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hua̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huak̚⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading, Changzhou, Jiaxing, Tongxiang, Ningbo)
  - Wugniu: ⁸vaq
  - MiniDict: vah^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵vaq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vaʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiading): /vaʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /vaʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /vaʔ²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Tongxiang): /vaʔ²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /vɐʔ¹²/
- (Northern: Songjiang, Chongming, Suzhou, Shaoxing)
  - Wugniu: ⁸vaeq
  - MiniDict: vaeh^入
  - Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /βæʔ²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Chongming): /fvæʔ²/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /vaʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /væʔ²³/

Middle Chinese: bjot

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
Baxter	bjot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/biuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buat̚/
Li Rong	/biuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/bĭwɐt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱi̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faat⁶

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

Synonyms

(valve):

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撰頭 (Min Nan)
活瓣 (huóbàn) (Taiwan)
活門 / 活门 (huómén)
閥門 / 阀门 (fámén)

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 (ménfá)
閘閥 / 闸阀 (zháfá)
閥族 / 阀族
閥閱 / 阀阅
黨閥 / 党阀 (dǎngfá)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “阀”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.

Japanese

Kanji

閥

(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: Hán Nôm readings: phiệt

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