閥

KANJI

閥

clique

faction, clan, coterie

Kun'yomi

—

On'yomi

ばつbatsu

Example sentences

彼かれは派は閥ばつ争あらそいに巻まき込こまれ、重じゅう要ようなプロジェクトから外はずされた。

He got caught up in a factional dispute and was removed from an important project.

その大だい学がくは学がく閥ばつが強つよく、外がい部ぶの人にん間げんが昇しょう進しんするのは難むずかしいと言いわれている。

That university is said to have a strong academic clique, making it difficult for outsiders to get promoted.

戦せん後ご、かつての財ざい閥ばつは解かい体たいされたが、その影えい響きょう力りょくは依い然ぜんとして残のこっている。

After the war, the former zaibatsu were dismantled, but their influence still remains.

Practice exercises

閥

Answer

ばつ

閥

Answer

cliquefactionlineage

財ざい閥

financial clique; conglomerate

Answer

ざいばつ

派は閥

faction; party clique

Answer

はばつ

学がく閥

academic clique; school faction

Answer

がくばつ

閨けい閥

marital ties to an influential family; power through marriage

Answer

けいばつ