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伐

fá

HSK 6 Character

What 伐 means

1. to cut down
2. to fell
3. to dispatch an expedition against
4. to attack
5. to boast
6. Taiwan pr. fā

Example sentences

• 我们真的得加紧步伐了。
  Wǒmen zhēn de děi jiājǐn bùfá le.
  We've really got to step on it.
• 斯洛伐克是个美丽的国家。
  Sīluòfákè shì gè měilì de guójiā.
  Slovakia is a beautiful country.
• 汤姆加紧步伐以赶上火车。
  Tāngmǔ jiājǐn bùfá yǐ gǎnshàng huǒchē.
  Tom hurried so he wouldn't miss the train.
• 汤姆在后院砍伐了一棵树。
  Tāngmǔ zàihòu yuàn kǎnfá le yī kē shù.
  Tom cut down a tree in his yard.
• 匈牙利和斯洛伐克是邻国。
  Xiōngyálì hé Sīluòfákè shì línguó.
  Hungary and Slovakia are neighbors.
• 我们应该走出什么样的步伐。
  Wǒmen yīnggāi zǒuchū shénmeyàng de bùfá.
  What steps should we take?

Words starting with 伐

• 伐木fá mùto fell trees (for timber)
• 伐木场fá mù chǎnga logging area
• 伐木工fá mù gōnglumberjack; logger
• 伐柯fá kē(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax…

Words containing 伐

• 步伐bù fápace; (measured) step; march
• 讨伐tǎo fáto suppress by armed force; to send a punitive expedition against; to crusade against
• 砍伐kǎn fáto hew; to cut down
• 北伐Běi fáthe Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek…
• 巴伐利亚Bā fá lì yàBavaria
• 斯洛伐克Sī luò fá kèSlovakia (officially the Slovak Republic since 1993)
• 捷克斯洛伐克Jié kè Sī luò fá kèRepublic of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992)
• 征伐zhēng fáto go on or send a punitive expedition
• 采伐cǎi fáto fell; to cut
• 攻伐gōng fáto attack; to raid; (of medicine) potent
• 禁伐jìn fáa ban on logging
• 北伐军běi fá jūnthe Northern Expeditionary Army
• 南征北伐nán zhēng běi fáwar on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
• 党同伐异dǎng tóng fá yìto be narrowly partisan; to unite with those of the same views but alienate those with…
• 斯洛伐克语Sī luò fá kè yǔSlovak (language)
• 滥伐làn fáto denude; illegal logging; forest clearance
• 盗伐dào fáto unlawfully fell trees
• 吊伐diào fáto console the people by punishing the tyrants (abbr. for 吊民伐罪
• 吊民伐罪diào mín fá zuìto console the people by punishing the tyrants (idiom)
• 滥砍滥伐làn kǎn làn fáwanton destruction of forested lands
• 辛伐他汀xīn fá tā tīngsimvastatin
• 操斧伐柯cāo fǔ fá kē(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax…
• 大张挞伐dà zhāng tà fá(idiom) to launch an all-out attack; to roundly condemn; to castigate
• 口诛笔伐kǒu zhū bǐ fáto condemn in speech and in writing (idiom); to denounce by word and pen

Characters that look like 伐

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 住zhùto live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease…
• 攸yōudistant, far; adverbial prefix
• 岘xiànabbr. for 岘首山; Mt Xianshou in Hubei; steep hill
• 怅chàngregretful; upset; despairing; depressed
• 佤WǎWa ethnic group
• 佚yì(bound form) (of a book, author etc) lost (to the ages); (bound form) reclusive

Sounds the same

Read fá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 罚to punish; to penalize; to fine
• 乏short of; tired
• 阀powerful individual, family or group; clique; (loanword) valve
• 筏raft (of logs)
• 垡to turn the soil; upturned soil; (used in place names)
• 橃large boat; old variant of 筏
• 茷denseness of grass-foliage