Memory phrase for the character: 阀

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clique, faction, valve (loanword)

fá

Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: to cut down, fell 伐 (A person 亻with a halberd 戈 is cutting down.)

It's like a gate with a guard (= a person with a halberd): the valve.

門	gate	Typically simplified to: 门
亻	person	This radical is understood as an identical variant of "person" 人, and shows a person who stands with the legs apart. - This radical has several variation, i.e. a lying person , a sitting 匕 person.
戈	halberd

军阀	jūn fá	military clique; junta; warlord
阀芯	fá xīn	a spool; a valve core
皖系军阀	Wǎn xì jūn fá	Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929
皖系军阀	Wǎn xì jūn fá

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