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cut down, subjugate, attack
💡 Ideographic: A person 亻 attacked 戈
HSK 6 ✏️ 6 strokes Common • Top 18%

Words Using 伐 (30)

步伐
bùfá
HSK 6
pace / (measured) step / march
砍伐
kǎnfá
HSK 6
to hew / to cut down
to cut down / to fell / to dispatch an expedition against / to attack / to boast / Taiwan pr. <fā>
伐木
fámù
to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering
伐柯
fákē
(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax / fig. to follow a principle / fig. to act as match-maker
假道伐虢
jiǎdàofáGuó
to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo / to borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy (idiom)
北伐
Běifá
the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords
北伐军
běifájūn
the Northern Expeditionary Army
南征北伐
nánzhēngběifá
war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
口诛笔伐
kǒuzhūbǐfá
to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom) / to denounce by word and pen
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