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)

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西礀派 、 学院派 、 浙东学派 、 宪章派 、 胜论学派 、 酷派 、 梅派 、 立体派 、 江西诗社宗派图 、 雅各宾派 、 桐城派 、 尼夜耶学派

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