Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N1

164 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: faction, group, party, clique, sect, school

Kunyomi:

Onyomi:

Composition: 𠂢

Radical

Radical:

Reading: さんずい

Meaning: water

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

閥(はばつ)   political faction

出所(はしゅつしょ)   local police station

員(とくはいん)   correspondent

(りゅうは)   school (e.g. of ikebana)

(さは)   left wing

(うは)   right wing

(しゅうは)   (religious) denomination

(とうは)   faction

な(りっぱな)   splendid

手な(はでな)   flashy, gaudy

遣する(はけんする)   dispatch

Onyomi Examples

clique, group, coterie, (political) faction, wing, party, camp, school, sect, denomination

ハケン dispatch, despatch, deployment, temporary employee (esp. from an agency), temporary worker, agency temp

コウハ 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

ウハ right wing