阀 (fá): valve, clique
阀 (fá) is a Chinese character meaning “valve, clique.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 门 (semantic) and 伐 (phonetic). It ranks #2541 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 阀 gate. Its radical form 门 (gate) appears in many related characters such as 门 (mén, door, gate), 间 (jiān, room, between), 闪 (shǎn, to flash, to dodge).
Definitions
- valve, clique
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阀门noun | fá mén | valve (mechanical) |
| 军阀noun | jūn fá | military clique |
| 安全阀noun | ān quán fá | safety valve |
| 节流阀 | jié liú fá | a throttle |
| 财阀noun | cái fá | tycoon |
| 直系军阀 | zhí xì jūn fá | the Zhili faction of the Northern Warlords |
| 军阀混战 | jūn fá hùn zhàn | incessant fighting between warlords |
| 北洋军阀proper-noun | běi yáng jūn fá | the Northern Warlords (1912-1927) |
| 奉系军阀 | fèng xì jūn fá | Fengtian clique (of northern warlords) |
| 吸入阀 | xī rù fá | suction valve |
| 皖系军阀 | wǎn xì jūn fá | Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929 |
| 桂系军阀 | guì xì jūn fá | Guangxi warlord faction, from 1911-1930 |
| 门阀noun | mén fá | rich and powerful family |
| 底阀 | dǐ fá | bottom valve |
| 球阀noun | qiú fá | ball valve |
阀 appears in 21 compound words: 10 as the first character, 86 as the last, and 5 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 阀 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
军阀混战时期，百姓生活很苦。
Jūnfá hùnzhàn shíqí, bǎixìng shēnghuó hěn kǔ.
During the warlord era, people's lives were very hard.
作业：上半身可扩展双臂、灵巧手和力传感器，支持抓取、拧转、搬运与阀门操作。
zuò yè : shàng bàn shēn kě kuò zhǎn shuāng bì , líng qiǎo shǒu hé lì chuán gǎn qì , zhī chí zhuā qǔ , níng zhuǎn , bān yùn yǔ fá mén cāo zuò .
Task: The upper body features extendable arms, dexterous hands, and force sensors, enabling grasping, twisting, handling, and valve operation.
与传统电控悬架依靠机械阀门调节软硬不同，磁流变悬架的减振油内悬浮着纳米级铁颗粒。
yǔ chuán tǒng diàn kòng xuán jià yī kào jī xiè fá mén diào jié ruǎn yìng bù tóng , cí liú biàn xuán jià de jiǎn zhèn yóu nèi xuán fú zhe nà mǐ jí tiě kē lì .
Unlike traditional electronically controlled suspensions, which rely on mechanical valves to adjust stiffness, magnetorheological suspensions contain nanoscale iron particles suspended in the damping fluid.
考试结束后，禁止的阀门被打开，大脑的奖赏系统进入“报复性补偿模式”。
kǎo shì jié shù hòu , jīn zhǐ de fá mén bèi dǎ kāi , dà nǎo de jiǎng shǎng xì tǒng jìn rù bào fù xìng bǔ cháng mó shì .
After the exam, the "shut-off valve" is released, and the brain's reward system enters "revenge-compensation mode."
领克的研发团队为此开发了电磁阀主动温区控制和定子转子双制冷技术。
lǐng kè de yán fā tuán duì wéi cǐ kāi fā le diàn cí fá zhǔ dòng wēn qū kòng zhì hé dìng zǐ zhuǎn zǐ shuāng zhì lěng jì shù .
To achieve this, Lynk & Co’s R&D team developed active temperature zone control using solenoid valves and dual-cooling technology for both the stator and rotor.
Character Family
门 Radical Family — Characters sharing the gate radical
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