派

派 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水竹竹女 (EHHV), four-corner 3213₂, composition ⿰氵𠂢)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 623, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17428
• Dae Jaweon: page 1019, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1611, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6D3E

• Unihan data for U+2F900

Historical forms of the character 派
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *m̥ʰreːɡs) : semantic 水 (“water; river”) + phonetic 𠂢. Originally written 𠂢.

From Middle Chinese 派 (MC pheaH, “branch (of a river); to delegate, send, detach”). In the sense “pi”, borrowed from English pi, ultimately from Ancient Greek πι (pi). In the sense “pie”, borrowed from English pie.

派

1. tributary of a river
2. school of thought; sect; branch; camp

   本土派 [Cantonese]  ―  bun² tou² paai^3-1   ―  localist groups

3. style; air; manner
4. to send; to dispatch
5. to hand out; to distribute

   派畀人嘅嘢 [Cantonese]  ―  paai³ bei² jan⁴ ge³ je⁵   ―  things handed out to people

   派利是 [Cantonese]  ―  paai³ lai⁶ si⁶   ―  to hand out red packets

6. to apportion; to impose
7. to censure; to blame
8. Classifier for a scene, an atmosphere, a speech or a sound.
9. Classifier for factions, schools of thought, groups, etc.
10. (mathematics) pi (π); the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
11. pie

    蘋果派／苹果派  ―  píngguǒpài  ―  apple pie

• (tributary): 流派 (liúpài), 支流 (zhīliú)
• (to distribute):

• (to send):

• (to censure):

• (pi): 圓周率／圆周率 (yuánzhōulǜ)
• (pie): (Cantonese) 批 (pai1)

• Azerbaijani: pay, paylamaq
• Turkish: pay
• Turkmen: paý, paýlamak
• Tatar: пай (pay)
  • → Russian: пай (paj, “share, interest”)

派

1. Only used in 派司 (pāsi).

• “派”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Southern Min

• “Entry #5183”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Shinjitai	派
Kyūjitai [1]	派󠄂 派+󠄂? (Adobe-Japan1)
	派󠄄 派+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: はい (hai)
• Kan’yō-on: は (ha, Jōyō)
• Kun: わかれ (wakare, 派れ)、わかれる (wakareru, 派れる)^{←わかる (wakaru, 派る, historical)}

• 語(ご)派(は) (goha): language branch
• 宗(しゅう)派(は) (shūha): religious sect
• 流(りゅう)派(は) (ryūha): school of thought

派(は) • (-ha) 

1. group, faction, (political) wing, school

   猫(ねこ)派(は)

   neko-ha

   a cat person

   あなたはいぬ派(は)、それともねこ派(は)？

   Anata wa inu-ha, soretomo neko-ha?

   Do you prefer dogs or cats?

   (literally, “Are you on the dog-side/group or on the cat-side/group?”)

From Middle Chinese 派 (MC pheaH). Recorded as Middle Korean 패 (phay) (Yale: phay) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

派

Wikisource

派 (eumhun 물갈래 파 (mulgallae pa))

1. hanja form^? of 파 (“faction”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

派: Hán Nôm readings: phái, pháy, phai, phới, phe, phơi, vé

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