(pài) - to send, to dispatch; group, faction; pie (loanword) in Mandarin
pàiTraditional: 派
Translation
to send, to dispatch; group, faction; pie (loanword)
Word origin
派 (pài) joins 氵, the water radical, with 𠂢, a component depicting a branching stream. It originally referred to a tributary or branch of a river and broadened to mean a faction, school or group, and to the verb 'to dispatch'. The 'pie' food sense is a separate borrowing from English.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 氵(water radical) + 𠂢 (branching stream, phonetic and meaning)
- English cognates
- pie
Stroke order
派
Examples
。
The company sent him to Shanghai on a business trip.
守。
She belongs to the conservative faction.
。
The company sent me to attend the meeting.
。
The boss sent him to Shanghai.
修。
Please send someone to fix it.
派 (pài) primarily means to send, dispatch, or assign someone to a task (派人去, send someone; 派遣, to dispatch). As a noun it means a group, faction, or school of thought (保守派, conservatives; 自由派, liberals). As a measure word it quantifies a scene or air: 一派胡言 (a bunch of nonsense), 一派繁荣 (an air of prosperity). The English word pie is also borrowed as 派 in 苹果派 (apple pie), particularly in Taiwan.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 派.
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