| 派别 | pài bié | group / sect / clique / faction / school |   |
| 派 |  pài | (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[yi]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ) / the circular ratio 𝜋 / = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie | |
| 小集团 | xiǎo jí tuán | faction / clique | |
| 朋党 | péng dǎng | clique | |
| 帮 | bāng | to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society | |
| 阀 | fá | powerful individual, family or group / clique / (loanword) valve | |
| 私人 | sī rén | private / personal / interpersonal / sb with whom one has a close personal relationship / a member of one's clique | |
| 军阀 | jūn fá | military clique / junta / warlord | |
| 张学良 | Zhāng Xué liáng | Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army | |
| 连横 | Lián Héng | Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC) | |
| 结党 | jié dǎng | to form a clique | |
| 党徒 | dǎng tú | clique member / henchman / gang member / crony | |
| 结党营私 | jié dǎng yíng sī | to gang up for personal interest (idiom) / to form a clique | |
| 奉系军阀 | Fèng xì jūn fá | Fengtian clique (of northern warlords) | |
| 马家军 | Mǎ jiā jūn | the Ma clique of warlords in Gansu and Ningxia during the 1930s and 1940s | |
| 合纵 | Hé Zòng | Vertical Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC) | |
| 奉系 | Fèng xì | Fengtian clique (of northern warlords) | |
| 奸党 | jiān dǎng | a clique of traitors | |
| 拉山头 | lā shān tóu | to start a clique / to form a faction | |
| 结党营私 | jié dǎng - yíng sī | (idiom) to form a clique for self-serving purposes | |
