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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HSK 3.0: Level 3
Old HSK: Level 5
Strokes: 9
Radical: 水 +6
Structure: Left–right 左右
Traditional: 派
Common rank: #584
Unicode: U+6D3E

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Formation & memory

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How 派 is formed

Components 氵氏 ? unknown part

How to remember it

faction · Heisig RSH #661

水 water + drag + bandana

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 派

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

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
派克大衣	pài kè dà yī	parka jacket (loanword); CL:件[jian4]
民主派	Mín zhǔ pài	(Hong Kong politics) the pro-democracy camp (founded 1987), aka the pan-democrats
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
派生词	pài shēng cí	derivative word
主战派	zhǔ zhàn pài	the pro-war faction; hawks
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

Sound family

These characters use 派 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
派 sound part	pài	clique, faction, group, sect
蒎	pài	pinane