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

• 右道性力派 Daksinacara
• 签派室(簽派室) dispatch office
• 派系 a sect; a faction
• 颓废派(頹廢派) decadents [of the Decadent movement of late 19th century Europe]
• 素尼派 Sunni sect
• 指派 to assign; to appoint; assignment
• 保守派 conservative faction
• 当权派(當權派) persons or faction in authority
• 什叶派(什葉派) Shia sect; Shiite sect
• 嫡派 legitimate lineage; true succession
• 两面派(兩面派) two-faced person; double-dealing
• 拣派(揀派) to select and dispatch as an official
• 少林派 Shaolin Sect
• 共和派 Republican faction
• 怀疑派(懷疑派) skeptical
• 资产阶级右派(資產階級右派) bourgeois rightist faction
• 教派 a sect; religious denomination
• 急派 to rush
• 签派(簽派) send police
• 反革命派 counter-revolutionary
• 杂交派对(雜交派對) sex party; orgy
• 学派(學派) school of thought
• 派斯托 pesto (Italian sauce)
• 派对(派對) party
• 派定 to believe; to be convinced
• 造反派 rebel faction
• 基督教派 Christian denomination
• 一派胡言 a bunch of nonsense
• 教友派 the Society of Friends; the Quakers
• 守旧派(守舊派) the conservative faction; reactionaries
• 派头(派頭) manner; style; panache
• 有气派(有氣派) lordly
• 派力奥(派力奧) Fiat Palio
• 反对派(反對派) opposition faction; opposition group
• 奉派 to receive an assignment
• 分派 to assign; to allocate ; a branch; a division ; a tributary of a river; a secondary ridge of a mountain
• 派遣 to dispatch; to send
• 派购(派購) fixed government purchase (esp of farm products)
• 温和派(溫和派) moderate faction
• 古典派 classicists
• 派遗(派遺) to send (sb) on a mission; to dispatch
• 加派 to reinforce; to dispatch troops
• 派任 to set apart; to assign somebody to a job
• 逊尼派(遜尼派) Sunni sect
• 委派 to appoint
• 京派 Beijing school

Also contained in

上清派 、 桐城派 、 学院派 、 立体派 、 豪放派

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Truncated for common words

• 第二回 Chapter 111 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第二回 Chapter 112 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 9
• 第二回 Chapter 7 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
• 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
• 第二回 Chapter 118 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 5
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 源派 (源派) 天潢源派譜 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷五十八　　　　志第四十八　　藝文二 Volume 58 Treatises 54: The Arts 2 — count: 3
• 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
• 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
• 坐派 (坐派) 曰坐派起運 — History of Ming 明史, 卷七十八 志第五十四 食貨二 Volume 78 Treatises 54: Finance and Economics 2 — count: 3