法
fǎ
old variant of 法[fa3]
law
water (氵) + remove (去) = law that washes away wrongdoing
Ancient Chinese law was modeled on water: it levels everything equally and flows away what is wrong. 去 here carries the sense of removing or departing, so water washing away wrongdoing became the image of justice.
Words with 法
国际法
guó jì fǎ
international law
执法
zhí fǎ
to enforce a law
论法
lùn fǎ
argumentation
透视法
tòu shì fǎ
perspective (in drawing)
透视画法
tòu shì huà fǎ
perspective drawing
进位法
jìn wèi fǎ
system of writing numbers to a base, such as decimal or binary (math)
违反宪法
wéi fǎn xiàn fǎ
to violate the constitution
违法
wéi fǎ
illegal
违法乱纪
wéi fǎ luàn jì
lit. to break the law and violate the rules (idiom)
选举法庭
xuǎn jǔ fǎ tíng
election court
部首编排法
bù shǒu biān pái fǎ
dictionary arrangement of Chinese characters under radicals
配方法
pèi fāng fǎ
completing the square (method of solving quadratic equation, math.)