Illustration: Inside a neighborhood association meeting room, one committee has divided into two tight clusters at opposite ends of the same long table. Each cluster leans toward its own senior member, nodding together while casting guarded looks at the other side.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

派は閥ばつ

habatsu

faction, clique

Example sentences

  1. この会社かいしゃには派閥はばつがあります。

    This office is divided up into camps.

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  2. これによって両者りょうしゃの対立たいりつは派閥はばつ間かんの争あらそいに発展はってんすることとなる。

    This caused the conflicts between the master and a disciple to develop into a battle between the factions.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 諸説しょせつの優すぐれた点てんを吸収きゅうしゅうしひとつの派閥はばつに偏かたよらないことが特徴とくちょうである。

    The Secchugaku is characterized by adopting good points of various theories and being balanced among them.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 派閥

  • 派faction; groupOnハ
  • 閥clique; lineageOnバツ

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