faction, group, party, clique, sect, school

Radicals

Common words

• 立派【りっぱ】
  splendid, fine, handsome, elegant, imposing, prominent, impressive, praiseworthy, creditable, worthy, legal, legitimate, lawful, undeniable (e.g. crime), indisputable, solid
• 派手【はで】
  showy, loud, flashy, gaudy
• 派閥【はばつ】
  clique, faction
• 右派【うは】
  right wing
• 左派【さは】
  left wing
• 特派員【とくはいん】
  (special) correspondent (e.g. for a newspaper), representative, delegate
• 硬派【こうは】
  hard-liners, diehards, hawks, (young) man with traditionally masculine interests, tough boy, man's man, hard news, reporter who covers political and economic affairs, strait-laced type (with respect to relationships), bullish traders
• 党派【とうは】
  faction, party, clique
• 超党派【ちょうとうは】
  suprapartisan, multiparty, bipartisan, nonpartisan
• 派出所【はしゅつじょ】
  branch office, police box, local police station
• 他派【たは】
  the other group
• 新派【しんぱ】
  new school (of thought, etc.), new drama
• 宗派【しゅうは】
  sect, denomination, school (e.g. of poetry)
• 旧派【きゅうは】
  old school, old style
• 流派【りゅうは】
  school (e.g. of ikebana)
• 無党派層【むとうはそう】
  unaffiliated voters, floating voters, swinging voters
• 一派【いっぱ】
  school, sect, party
• 印象派【いんしょうは】
  Impressionists
• 増派【ぞうは】
  reinforcements
• 正統派【せいとうは】
  orthodox school