Hanja Analyzer
閥

閥 — beol

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
문벌 벌
Romanization
beol
English
powerful and influential group
Mandarin
fá
Japanese on'yomi
バツ, ハツ, ボチ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,072 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Radical
門 (169, 6 residual)
Phonetic component
伐(벌)
Unicode
U+95A5

Parts that make up 閥

  • 門 문 문 두 짝 문문과 드나드는 일
  • 伐 칠[討] 벌sound

How 閥 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 閥 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 門, 伐.

Korean example words with 閥

  • 반벌班閥 Korean gloss: 양반의 문벌
  • 가벌家閥 Korean gloss: 한 집안의 사회적 지위
  • 지벌地閥 Korean gloss: 지체와 문벌을 아울러 이르는 말
  • 명벌名閥 Korean gloss: 이름 있는 문벌. 또는 훌륭한 집안
  • 문벌門閥 Korean gloss: 대대로 내려오는 그 집안의 사회적 신분이나 지위
  • 파벌派閥 Korean gloss: 개별적인 이해관계에 따라 따로 갈라진 사람의 집단
  • 벌족閥族 Korean gloss: 나라에 공이 많고 벼슬 경력이 많음. 또는 그런 집안
  • 학벌學閥 Korean gloss: 학문을 닦아서 얻게 된 사회적 지위나 신분. 또는 출신 학교의 사회적 지위나 등급
  • 벌열하다閥閱 Korean gloss: 나라에 공이 많고 벼슬 경력이 많다
  • 재벌가財閥家 Korean gloss: 재벌 집안
  • 고학벌高學閥 Korean gloss: 학벌이 높음
  • 재벌관財閥觀 Korean gloss: 재벌에 대한 견해

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 閥

  • 派閥はばつ clique; faction
  • 財閥ざいばつ zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group
  • 閥ばつ clique; clan; faction
  • 学閥がくばつ alma mater clique; old school tie
  • 軍閥ぐんばつ military clique; military party
  • 閥族ばつぞく clan; clique
  • 藩閥はんばつ clanship; clannism; clan favoritism
  • 門閥もんばつ lineage; pedigree; good family
  • 閨閥けいばつ clan
  • 党閥とうばつ party faction; party clique
  • 薩摩閥さつまばつ Satsuma clan
  • 無派閥むはばつ belonging to no (political) faction

Characters sharing the phonetic 伐

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “벌” in Korean.

Other hanja read “벌”

Other hanja with radical 門

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