派

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部首ぶしゅ: 氵(さんずい)

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.”

会社かいしゃ東京とうきょう社員しゃいん派遣はけんしました。
The company dispatched an employee to Tokyo.

かれ服装ふくそうは とても 派手はでです。
His outfit is very flashy.

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Forms
派生はせい — derivation; offshoot
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