pài
school of thought, faction
Depicts the water (氵) in a river flowing into different branches (𠂢). The meaning later expanded to "faction", "school of thought", and "style".
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
pài
school of thought, sect, branch; clique; school; group; faction; to dispatch; to send; to assign; to appoint; pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926; (loanword) pie
Most common words with 派
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
clique | ||
party (loanword) | ||
local police station | ||
to send | ||
gang |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 60.8842% of movies
530th most common character in movies
532nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6D3E |
Shuowen | “派，別水也。从水，从，亦聲。” |
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