漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
派: faction, group
Also: party, clique, sect, school
JLPT N19 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 𠂢(sound)
氵 carries the meaning · 𠂢 gives the sound
9 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ハha · on'yomi · in compounds
- 派閥はばつpolitical faction
- 派出所はしゅつしょlocal police station
- 特派員とくはいんcorrespondent
- 流派りゅうはschool (e.g. of ikebana)
- 左派さはleft wing
- 右派うはright wing
- 宗派しゅうは(religious) denomination
- 党派とうはfaction
- 立派なりっぱなsplendid
- 派手なはでなflashy, gaudy
- 派遣するはけんするdispatch
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水 water; river (meaning) + 𠂢 (sound)
𠂢 is the original pictogram for this character; 水 was added later to differentiate.
Source: Wiktionary, 派 (rev. 92545777), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ハ
5 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side派 faction · 氵
vs脈 vein · 月In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pài
Same form: 派 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 派 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 派 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin pài most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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