powerful and influential group

DEFINITIONS

  • powerful and influential group
  • powerful individual, family or group
  • clique
  • (loanword) valve

WORDS

北洋軍 běi yáng jūn fá the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)
吸入 xī rù fá suction valve
奉系軍 fèng xì jūn fá Fengtian clique (of northern warlords)
安全 ān quán fá safety valve
dǐ fá bottom valve; foot valve
桂系軍 guì xì jūn fá Guangxi warlord faction, from 1911-1930
qì fá steam valve
皖系軍 wǎn xì jūn fá Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929
直係軍 zhí xì jūn fá the Zhili faction of the Northern Warlords
tǒng fá a sleeve valve
節流 jié liú fá a throttle
cái fá plutocracy; monopolistic corporation, esp. prewar Japanese zaibatsu; Korean chaebol; plutocrat; tycoon; oligarch; financial magnate
jūn fá military clique; junta; warlord
混戰 jūn fá hùn zhàn incessant fighting between warlords
mén fá rich and powerful family
芯 fá xīn valve stem
門 fá mén valve (mechanical)
dǐng fá top valve; head valve
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