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派 (pài): meaning and stroke order

派 (pài) means (literary) tributary; branch of a river, clique; school; group; faction.

派

Simplified
派
Traditional
派 (same form)
Pinyin
pài · pā

Stroke order of 派

派

  • pā used in 派司[pa1 si5]
  • pài (literary) tributary; branch of a river; clique; school; group; faction
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 派

  1. pài
    • (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
  2. pā
    • used in 派司[pa1 si5]

Radical and structure

派
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 9 strokes · 氵 on the left, 𠂢 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

派 in our stories

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  • 孟凯第一次一个人出差，公司派他去广州跟一家大客户谈合作。

    Mèng Kǎi dì-yī cì yí gè rén chūchāi gōngsī pài tā qù Guǎngzhōu gēn yì jiā dà kèhù tán hézuò

    Meng Kai was on his first business trip alone: the company had sent him to Guangzhou to discuss working with a big client.

    From the story Three circles HSK 4

  • 舜帝派大禹去治水。在他之前，他的父亲鲧已经治了九年，却没有成功。

    Shùn dì pài Dà Yǔ qù zhìshuǐ zài tā zhīqián tā de fùqīn Gǔn yǐjīng zhì le jiǔ nián què méiyǒu chénggōng

    Emperor Shun sent Yu to control the waters. Before him, Yu's father Gun had tried for nine years without success.

    From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

  • 东海龙王敖光派一个夜叉出来查看，夜叉见是个小孩，举起斧头就砍。

    Dōng Hǎi Lóngwáng Áo Guāng pài yí gè yèchā chūlai chákàn yèchā jiàn shì gè xiǎohái jǔ qǐ fǔtou jiù kǎn

    Ao Guang, Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, sent a yaksha out to see what was going on; seeing only a child, the yaksha raised its axe and swung.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 派

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).