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  *派* | 派* | *派
(literary) tributary; branch of a river / clique; school; group; faction / (bound form) style; manner / to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by ) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie
HSK 3
impressive / stylish / magnificent / imposing manner / dignified air
HSK 7-9
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  *派* | 派* | *派
used in 派司
villain (of a drama etc)
(political) right / right wing / rightist
school of thought
political party / faction
gang / faction
hawk faction (opposite: 鴿派|鸽派, doves) / fierce and combative party / war party / warmongers
sect / school (group of followers of a particular doctrine)
to select / to detail / to set apart / to appoint
to assign / to appoint / assignment
to appoint
to assign (a task to different people) / to allocate
tributary (stream) / (fig.) school (of thought) / genre / style
(of a person) upright; respectable; decent / (Tw) (of a business etc) reputable
sect
impressionism
special appointment / special correspondent / task force / sb dispatched on a mission
Coolpad Group Ltd, Chinese company
to send sb to work abroad or in a different location
old-fashioned; old-school
way of doing sth / behavior / to act in an affected manner / mannerism / gestures in opera
sect
new faction
Sunni sect (of Islam)
to send on assignment / to deploy (troops)
(political) left / left wing / leftist
to apportion expenses, responsibilities etc / to demand contributions
to reinforce / to dispatch troops
capitalist roader (person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution)
political group / faction
hard-line / hardcore
dove faction (opposite: 鷹派|鹰派, hawks) / peace party / the faction seeking peace
apple pie
old school / conservative faction
academism (art)
to be honest and upright / to have moral integrity
Frankfurt School
Maoist
two-faced person / double-dealing
Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century)
politically unaffiliated / independent (candidate)
modernist faction / modernists
the Mei Lanfang School / see 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳
the pro-war faction / hawks
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists
(Hong Kong politics) the pro-democracy camp (founded 1987), aka the pan-democrats
persons or faction in authority
Maronite Church; Maronites
conservative faction
to send sb abroad at the government's expense
Geju (Tibetan: transmit word of Buddha) sect of Tibetan Buddhist
local faction / pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)
Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism
moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground
Gatsby, Japanese cosmetics brand
classicists
to dispatch
the Chartist movement (in the 1840s in England)
the reformist party
the Society of Friends / the Quakers
Raspberry Pi (computing)
the Narodniks, Russian populist group in the 19th century
Cubism
the reformist faction
rebel faction
centrist / the centrist faction
the peace faction / doves
Shia sect (of Islam)
freeloader; moocher; sponger
variant of 做派
avant-garde
Republican faction
reactionaries
opposition faction
Bkar-dgam-pa sect of Tibetan Buddhism
Christian denomination
Christian Science
person who sticks to old ways; a diehard; a conservative
young guard / young and vigorous group with new ideas / new wave
hardline faction / hawks
the skeptics
lordly
happy-go-lucky people / optimists
pan-Democratic alliance (Hong Kong)
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
moderate faction
Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam)
Sufi sect of Islam in central Asia
liberal
Hu Zhua Pai - "Tiger Claw Sytem" - Martial Art
pious sect / fundamentalist faction
bourgeois rightist faction (esp. during anti-rightist movement of 1957-58)
Jacobin club, French revolutionary party that played a leading role in the reign of terror 1791-1794
Charismatic Movement
decadents (of the Decadent movement of late 19th century Europe)


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