派
Definition
* 水的支流。 九～（指长江支流之多）。 * 一个系统的分支。 ～系。～别。～性。党～。 * 作风，风度。 正～。气～。～势。～头。 * 分配，指定。 ～赴。～驻。～遣。委～。 * 指摘。 ～不是。 * 量词（❶用于派别，如"两～的意见争论不休"；❷用于景色、气象、语言等，前面用""字，如"一～胡言"、"好一～北国风光"）
school of thought, sect, branch
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
Liushutong Seal Forms
Pre-Qin to Han seal-type forms (≤220 CE) / compiled 1661 (Min Qiji); collated and printed 1720 (Bi Hongshu)
A ten-volume compendium of seal-script variants arranged by the rhymes of Hongwu Zhengyun: each head character gives its Shuowen small seal form, then variants gathered from guwen, zhouwen, bronze inscriptions and Qin–Han seals. Long a standard reference for seal carvers, but the forms are compiled rather than excavated and were collected with little vetting, so many are of doubtful authenticity.Wikimedia Commons ->