阀
fá HSK7

powerful and influential group

阀 閥 fá
valve noun
a mechanical device used to control the flow, pressure, or direction of liquids or gases; a loanword from English "valve"
[clique]
(bound form) a powerful person, family, or group with dominant influence in a specific field; refers to historical lineages of merit or modern cliques like a 军阀 jūn​fá or 财阀 cái​fá
merit
achievements; distinguished service, often in the context of family lineage
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,671st most common 15.3 per million
Movie subtitles
2,918th most common 3.93 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.09 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
4.82 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
閥
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+9600

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)