法

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law; method; way; to emulate; (Buddhism) dharma; (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists; (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

The course 去 followed by a stream 氵

Components 氵去

method · Heisig RSH #676

水 water + 去 go

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
法国人	Fǎ guó rén	Frenchman; French person
不法分子	bù fǎ fèn zǐ	variant of 不法分子[bu4 fa3 fen4 zi3]
不法分子	bù fǎ fèn zǐ	criminal; lawbreaker; outlaw
中国法学会	Zhōng guó Fǎ xué huì	China Law Society
不法	bù fǎ	lawless; illegal; unlawful
法子	fǎ zi	way; method; Taiwan pr. [fa2 zi5]
无法无天	wú fǎ wú tiān	(idiom) defiant of the law and lacking any sense of morality; lawless; out of control; unr…
法人	fǎ rén	legal person; corporation; see also 自然人[zi4 ran2 ren2]
国法	guó fǎ	national law
法国	Fǎ guó	France
法学家	fǎ xué jiā	jurist; member of the pre-Han legalist school
中法	Zhōng Fǎ	China-France; Sino-French
法学	fǎ xué	law; legal studies
无法	wú fǎ	unable to; incapable of
法儿	fǎ r	way; method; means; Taiwan pr. [fa1 r5]
法马	fǎ mǎ	variant of 砝碼\|砝码[fa3 ma3]
法西斯	fǎ xī sī	fascist (loanword)
家法	jiā fǎ	the rules and discipline that apply within a family; stick used for punishing children or …
法家	Fǎ jiā	the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring State…
法拉	fǎ lā	farad, SI unit of electrical capacitance (loanword)