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fá

Meanings

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fá

1.to cut down
2.to fell
3.to dispatch an expedition against
4.to attack
5.to boast
6.Taiwan pr. [fā]

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Wiktionary

1.to kill; to slaughter; to behead
2.to hack; to fell; to cut down; to hew
3.to knock; to strike; to hit
4.to send troops to suppress; to attack
5.to remove; to eliminate; to take away
6.to damage; to harm; to endanger
7.to defeat; to thwart
8.to criticize; to blame
9.the name of three stars in the Three Stars mansion: 42 Orionis, θ2 Orionis and ι Orionis
10.ridge soil
11.to brag about (oneself); to flaunt
12.to stride; to take a stride; to step forward; to step over
13.step; footstep; stride
14.Classifier for footsteps: step
15.a surname
16.raft (made of bamboo or wood)
17.contribution
18.family status
19.powerful and influential group
20.valve

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Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pat (“to strike”).

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Stroke order

Components

伐亻戈

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Synonyms

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Related words

步伐 pace 盗伐 to unlawfully fell trees 禁伐 a ban on logging 北伐 the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords 砍伐 to hew 采伐 to fell 滥伐 to denude 讨伐 to suppress by armed force 吊伐 to console the people by punishing the tyrants (abbr. for 吊民伐罪[diào mín fá zuì])攻伐 to attack 伐柯 (cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax 伐木 to cut wood