伐

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to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against; to attack; to boast; Taiwan pr. [fa1]

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A person 亻 attacked 戈

Components 亻戈

fell · Heisig RSH #2079

人 person + fiesta

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
斯洛伐克语	Sī luò fá kè yǔ	Slovak (language)
巴伐利亚	Bā fá lì yà	Bavaria
斯洛伐克	Sī luò fá kè	Slovakia (officially the Slovak Republic since 1993)
捷克斯洛伐克	Jié kè Sī luò fá kè	Republic of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992)
南征北伐	nán zhēng běi fá	war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
伐木工	fá mù gōng	lumberjack; logger
伐木场	fá mù chǎng	a logging area
党同伐异	dǎng tóng fá yì	to be narrowly partisan; to unite with those of the same views but alienate those with dif…
北伐军	běi fá jūn	the Northern Expeditionary Army
吊民伐罪	diào mín fá zuì	to console the people by punishing the tyrants (idiom)
伐木	fá mù	to fell trees (for timber)
北伐	Běi fá	the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, ag…
步伐	bù fá	pace; (measured) step; march
口诛笔伐	kǒu zhū bǐ fá	to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom); to denounce by word and pen
征伐	zhēng fá	to go on or send a punitive expedition
吊伐	diào fá	to console the people by punishing the tyrants (abbr. for 弔民伐罪\|吊民伐罪[diao4 min2 fa2 zui4])
禁伐	jìn fá	a ban on logging
采伐	cǎi fá	to fell; to cut
攻伐	gōng fá	to attack; to raid; (of medicine) potent
讨伐	tǎo fá	to suppress by armed force; to send a punitive expedition against; to crusade against

These characters use 伐 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
伐 sound part	fá	cut down, subjugate, attack
阀	fá	clique, valve; a powerful and influential group
筏	fá	raft
垡	fá	to plow; place name