派
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(literary) tributary; branch of a river; clique; school; group; faction; (bound form) style; manner; to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb); classifier for factions, groups etc; (preceded by 一[yi1]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc; (loanword) pi (Greek letter Π, π); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159...; (loanword) pie
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Dict coverage rank #580 U+6D3E
How 派 is formed
How to remember it
faction · Heisig RSH #661
水 water + drag + bandana
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 派 as their sound component
These characters all use 派 (pài) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 派 sound component | pài | clique, faction, group, sect |
| 蒎 | pài | pinane |
Words containing 派
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白山派 | Bái shān pài | Sufi sect of Islam in central Asia |
| 法兰克福学派 | Fǎ lán kè fú Xué pài | Frankfurt School |
| 有气派 | yǒu qì pài | lordly |
| 派上用场 | pài shàng yòng chǎng | to put to good use; to come in handy |
| 作风正派 | zuò fēng zhèng pài | to be honest and upright; to have moral integrity |
| 马龙派 | Mǎ lóng pài | Maronite Church; Maronites |
| 民主派 | Mín zhǔ pài | (Hong Kong politics) the pro-democracy camp (founded 1987), aka the pan-democrats |
| 派克大衣 | pài kè dà yī | parka jacket (loanword); CL:件[jian4] |
| 反动派 | fǎn dòng pài | reactionaries |
| 乐天派 | lè tiān pài | happy-go-lucky people; optimists |
| 主和派 | zhǔ hé pài | the peace faction; doves |
| 主战派 | zhǔ zhàn pài | the pro-war faction; hawks |
| 派生词 | pài shēng cí | derivative word |
| 中间派 | zhōng jiān pài | moderate faction; party of compromise; middle ground |
| 特派员 | tè pài yuán | special correspondent; sb dispatched on a mission; special commissioner |
| 中立派 | zhōng lì pài | centrist; the centrist faction |
| 派头 | pài tóu | manner; style; panache |
| 学派 | xué pài | school of thought |
| 派生 | pài shēng | to produce (from sth else); to derive (from raw material); derivative |
| 立体派 | Lì tǐ pài | Cubism |