Meaning & readings
faction, group, party, clique, sect, school
Origin
The character 派 combines water (the left component, which can represent flowing or spreading) with a sound hint on the right that tells you roughly how to pronounce it. The water radical suggests the idea of something spreading or branching out, much like water flowing into different streams. Over time, this visual idea of division and branching came to represent a faction or school—a group that has separated or split off from a larger body, each following its own current.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 氵
- 𠂢
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #164 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+06D3E