派

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部首ぶしゅ: さんずい(氵)

Meaning

Faction / Group / School / Sect

  • 派出はしゅつ — deployment
  • 派生はせい — derivation; offshoot
  • 派手はで — flashy; showy
  • 流派りゅうは — school (of art or thought)
  • 分派ぶんぱ — sect; branch
  • 派遣はけん — dispatch; send out

派 combines the water radical 氵 with a component suggesting branching flow. From the idea of water splitting into streams, the meaning broadened to “faction” or “school,” and by extension “to dispatch.”

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