- 派出 — deployment
- 派生 — derivation; offshoot
- 派手 — flashy; showy
- 流派 — school (of art or thought)
- 分派 — sect; branch
- 派遣 — 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.”
会社は 東京に 社員を 派遣しました。
The company dispatched an employee to Tokyo.
彼の服装は とても 派手です。
His outfit is very flashy.
