Chinese symbol for “faction”
小集团
xiǎo jí tuán
Traditional: 小集團
faction; clique
The closest CC-CEDICT match for faction is 小集团 (xiǎo jí tuán), defined as: faction; clique.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “faction”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 派别 (派別) | pài bié | group; sect; clique; faction; school |
| 派 | pài | (literary) tributary; branch of a river; clique; school; group; faction |
| 门 (門) | mén | gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇 (shàn)); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure |
| 党派 (黨派) | dǎng pài | political party; faction |
| 阵营 (陣營) | zhèn yíng | group of people; camp |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小集团.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小时 (小時) | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 小说 (小說) | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction |
| 小学 (小學) | xiǎo xué | elementary school; primary school |
| 小姐 | xiǎo jie | young lady; miss |
| 小组 (小組) | xiǎo zǔ | group |
| 小孩 | xiǎo hái | child; 个 (gè) |
| 集团 (集團) | jí tuán | group; bloc |
| 集中 | jí zhōng | to concentrate; to centralize |
| 团体 (團體) | tuán tǐ | group; organization |
See also: Japanese symbol for “faction”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.