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Traditional form:

Pinyin (reading):

pài

Definitions:

  • (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 一 (yī)) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc
  • (loanword) pi (Greek letter Π, π); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159...
  • (loanword) pie

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