HSK 5 · Verbs

派 pài “to send” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 派 means

  1. to send
  2. to dispatch
  3. group
  4. school of thought
  5. clique
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • school
  • faction
  • (bound form) style
  • manner
  • to send (a person or resource)
  • to allocate (a resource or task)

How to say 派

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale派pài4th tone, falling

派 in a sentence

  1. 你必须派人去请医生来。

    Nǐ bìxū pài rén qù qǐng yīshēng lái.

    You must send for the doctor.

    Sentence #769673 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 她把这个工作派给他做。

    Tā bǎ zhè ge gōngzuò pài gěi tā zuò.

    She assigned the work to him.

    Sentence #864343 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 她派他去工作了。

    Tā pài tā qù gōngzuò le.

    She sent him off to work.

    Sentence #851549 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 派 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 派 (pài) drawn as one shape
派pàitributary; branch of a river

派 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 派

派 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

派 (pài) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 派 (pài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 派

Words with 派

派遣pàiqiǎn · to dispatch派别pàibié · faction

More words: Common Verbs

摸mō · to feel with the hand模仿mófǎng · to imitate念niàn · to read aloud拍pāi · to pat培养péiyǎng · to cultivate配合pèihé · to cooperate批pī · measure word for batches or groups披pī · to drape over one’s shoulders

FAQs

派 (pài) means “to send” or “to dispatch”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it pài: pài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 派 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 派 from the suggestions. Typing pai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
派 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.