派 pài

1. pài noun school of thought; a sect; a faction
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 派别; for example, 学派 'school of thought' (Guoyu '派' n 2; Kroll 2015 '派' 1a; Unihan '派'; XHZD '派' 3)
2. pài verb to dispatch
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 差遣 (Guoyu '派' v 2; XHZD '派' 5)
3. pài noun the circular ratio π (pi)
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Mathematics
   Notes: Circumference; diameter 3.1415926 (CC-CEDICT '派')
4. pài noun the Greek letter π (pi)
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Foreign Language
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '派')
5. pài measure word a branch
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Of a system (Guoyu '派' n 4; XHZD '派' 2)
6. pài noun a tributary
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Of a river; in the sense of 江河支流 (Guoyu '派' n 1; Kroll 2015 '派' 1; XHZD '派' 1)
7. pài noun bearing; manner; style
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 气度 (Guoyu '派' n 3; XHZD '派' 4)
8. pài noun pie
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Foreign Language
   Notes: As a loanword from English (Guoyu '派' n 5)
9. pài verb to distribute; to assign; to allocate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 分配 (Guoyu '派' v 1)
10. pài verb to arrange
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 安排; for example, the idiom 派上用场 'to put to good use' (Guoyu '派' v 3)
11. pài verb to criticize; to denounce
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 指责 (Guoyu '派' v 4)

Contained in

• 法兰克福学派(法蘭克福學派) Frankfurt School
• 拣派(揀派) to select and dispatch as an official
• 古印度六派哲学(古印度六派哲學) six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy
• 一切反动派都是纸老虎(一切反動派都是紙老虎) all reactionaries are paper tigers
• 派遣 to dispatch; to send
• 特派 special appointment; special correspondent; task force; somebody dispatched on a mission
• 教友派 the Society of Friends; the Quakers
• 急派 to rush
• 本土派 local faction; pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)
• 路德派 Lutheranism
• 派头(派頭) manner; style; panache
• 派出 to send; to dispatch
• 铺派(鋪派) to arrange
• 统购派购(統購派購) unified government purchase at fixed price (esp of farm products)
• 教派 a sect; religious denomination
• 党派集会(黨派集會) party meeting
• 荐派(薦派) nominate
• 旧派(舊派) old school; conservative faction
• 反对派(反對派) opposition faction; opposition group
• 委派 to appoint
• 鹰派(鷹派) hawk faction (opposite: 鸽派, doves); fierce and combative party; war party; warmongers
• 温和派(溫和派) moderate faction
• 派对(派對) party
• 派任 to set apart; to assign somebody to a job
• 作派 gestures in opera ; affected
• 南派螳螂 Chow Gar; Southern Praying Mantis
• 怀疑派(懷疑派) skeptical
• 右派 (political) right; right wing; rightist
• 中立派 centrist; the centrist faction
• 派别(派別) sect; denomination; branch of a religion ; branch of a river
• 党派(黨派) political party
• 改革派 the reformist party
• 千支万派(千支萬派) a thousand branches and ten thousand schools
• 派兵 to dispatch troops
• 自由派 liberal
• 派购(派購) fixed government purchase (esp of farm products)
• 派生词(派生詞) derivative word
• 差派 to appoint for a task
• 政派 political group; faction
• 一派胡言 a bunch of nonsense
• 一位论派(一位論派) Unitarianism
• 反革命派 counter-revolutionary
• 门派(門派) a sect; a school
• 北派螳螂拳 Beipai Tanglang Quan; Northern Praying Mantis (Chinese Martial Art)
• 分派 to assign; to allocate ; a branch; a division ; a tributary of a river; a secondary ridge of a mountain

Also contained in

功能语法学派 、 学院派 、 梅派 、 豪放派 、 印象派 、 婉约派

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• 第二回 Chapter 111 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第二回 Chapter 7 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 9
• 第二回 Chapter 112 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 9
• 卷八十五 志第六十一 河渠三 Volume 85 Treatises 61: Rivers and Canals 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 7
• 第二回 Chapter 24 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 6
• 卷七十八 志第五十四 食貨二 Volume 78 Treatises 54: Finance and Economics 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 5
• 第二回 Chapter 118 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 5
• 第二回 Chapter 119 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 5
• 卷八十二 志第五十八 食貨六 Volume 82 Treatises 58: Finance and Economics 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 5
• 卷九十七　志第四十五下: 食貨五 Volume 97 Treatises 50: Finance and Economics 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 5

Collocations

• 一派 (一派) 又於西南水磨引索河一派 — History of Song 宋史, 卷九十四 志第四十七 河渠四 Volume 94 Treatises 47: Rivers and Canals 4 — count: 9
• 九派 (九派) 鑿江通於九派 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷一 君道 Chapter 1: The Way of the Ruler — count: 8
• 二派 (二派) 分為二派 — History of Song 宋史, 卷九十二 志第四十五 河渠二 Volume 92 Treatises 45: Rivers and Canals 2 — count: 5
• 派入 (派入) 又派入溫縣 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷38　列傳第3　劉昉 鄭譯 柳裘 皇甫績 盧賁 Volume 38 Biographies 3: Liu Fang, Zheng Yi, Liu Qiu, Huang Fuji, Lu Ben — count: 5
• 末派 (末派) 析木為雲漢末派 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷三十一　　　　志第二十一　　天文一 Volume 31 Treatises 25: Astronomy 1 — count: 4
• 派流 (派流) 派流則異 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷十四 列傳第八 江淹 任昉 Volume 14: Jiang Yan; Ren Fang — count: 4
• 两派 (兩派) 別為兩派 — History of Song 宋史, 卷九十七 志第五十 河渠七 Volume 97 Treatises 50: Rivers and Canals 7 — count: 3
• 枝派 (枝派) 故雖儒法枝派 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷九十七 列傳第五十七 夷蠻 Volume 97 Biographies 57: Yi Man — count: 3
• 科派 (科派) 科派病民者罪不宥 — History of Ming 明史, 卷八 本紀第八 仁宗 Volume 8 Annals 8: Renzong — count: 3
• 河派 (河派) 濟河派也 — History of Ming 明史, 卷八十五 志第六十一 河渠三 Volume 85 Treatises 61: Rivers and Canals 3 — count: 3