派 别 pài bié denomination / group / school / faction / school of thought 派 pài clique / school / group / faction / to dispatch / to send / to assign / to appoint / pi (Greek letter Ππ) / the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926 / (loanword) pie 门 户 mén hù door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel 帮 派 bāng pài gang / faction 阵 营 zhèn yíng group of people / camp / faction / sides in a dispute 派 系 pài xì sect / faction 党 派 dǎng pài political party / faction 小 集 团 xiǎo jí tuán faction / clique 政 派 zhèng pài political group / faction 反 对 派 fǎn duì pài opposition faction 新 派 xīn pài new faction 鹰 派 yīng pài hawk faction (opposite: 鴿派|鸽派[ge1 pai4], doves) / fierce and combative party / war party / warmongers 嫡 系 dí xì direct line of descent / under one's personal command / school or faction passing on faithfully one's doctrine 保 守 派 bǎo shǒu pài conservative faction 贼 船 zéi chuán pirate ship / fig. venture of dubious merit / criminal gang / reactionary faction 现 代 派 xiàn dài pài modernist faction / modernists 造 反 派 zào fǎn pài rebel faction 李 宗 仁 Lǐ Zōng rén Li Zongren (1891-1969), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction 叛 党 pàn dǎng to betray one's party / to defect (from the communist party) / renegade faction 白 崇 禧 Bái Chóng xǐ Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949 强 硬 派 qiáng yìng pài hardline faction / hawks 党 魁 dǎng kuí faction leader / head of political party 洋 务 派 yáng wù pài the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing 主 战 派 zhǔ zhàn pài the pro-war faction / hawks 陈 炯 明 Chén Jiǒng míng Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong 当 权 派 dāng quán pài persons or faction in authority 中 间 派 zhōng jiān pài moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground 中 立 派 zhōng lì pài centrist / the centrist faction 守 旧 派 shǒu jiù pài the conservative faction / reactionaries 温 和 派 wēn hé pài moderate faction 共 和 派 gòng hé pài Republican faction 维 新 派 wéi xīn pài the reformist faction 李 鹏 Lǐ Péng Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown 主 和 派 zhǔ hé pài the peace faction / doves 刘 宾 雁 Liú Bīn yàn Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer 北 洋 系 Běi yáng xì Beiyang faction of Northern Warlords 本 土 派 běn tǔ pài local faction / pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics) 桂 系 军 阀 Guì xì jūn fá Guangxi warlord faction, from 1911-1930 民 主 派 mín zhǔ pài Democratic faction 异 议 分 子 yì yì fèn zǐ dissidents / dissenting faction 皖 系 战 败 Wǎn xì zhàn bài Anhui faction of Northern Warlords (1912-c. 1920), led by Duan Qirui 段祺瑞 / with Japanese support 皖 系 军 阀 Wǎn xì jūn fá Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929 直 系 军 阀 Zhí xì jūn fá the Zhili faction of the Northern Warlords 直 皖 战 争 Zhí Wǎn zhàn zhēng war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government 旧 派 jiù pài old school / conservative faction 蒋 桂 战 争 Jiǎng Guì zhàn zhēng confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction 虔 信 派 qián xìn pài pious sect / fundamentalist faction 资 产 阶 级 右 派 zī chǎn jiē jí yòu pài bourgeois rightist faction (esp. during anti-rightist movement of 1957-58) 陆 荣 廷 Lù Róng tíng Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leader of old Guangxi warlord faction 鸽 派 gē pài dove faction (opposite: 鷹派|鹰派[ying1 pai4], hawks) / peace party / the faction seeking peace 巴 德 尔 Bā dé ěr Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology / Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group 明 尼 · 米 纳 维 派 míng ní middot;mǐ nà wéi pài Minawi faction / Minni Minawi faction 阿 卜 杜 勒 · 瓦 希 德 派 Abdul Wahid faction / Wahid faction 阿 布 哈 兹 派 Abkhazeti faction 卡 鲁 纳 派 别 Karuna faction 派 别 领 导 人 faction leader 前 交 战 方 former warring faction 拉 山 头 lā shān tóu to start a clique / to form a faction