Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. clique; group; coterie
2. (political) faction; wing; party; camp
3. school
4. sect; denomination
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (154 in total)
school of painting
different school (e.g. of ikebana)
branch of languages (i.e. Italic languages as a subset of Indo-European languages)
belonging to no party or school of thought
left wing
sect; denomination
school (e.g. of ikebana)
reinforcements
clique; faction
radical party; extremists
hard-liners; diehards; (young) man with traditionally masculine interests; tough boy; hard news; reporter who covers political and economic affairs
majority group (party, faction)
faction; party; clique
derivation
opposition faction
minority group (party); minority
old school; old style
orthodox school
sect; denomination; school (e.g. of poetry)
revolutionaries
moderate faction; moderates
hard-liners; diehards; hawks
school; sect
conservatives
dispatch of troops; despatch of troops
main faction
Impressionists
supporting faction
romantic school; romanticism
romantic school; romanticism
people with a pure and innocent image (esp. actresses, singers, etc.)
radical faction or group
one's own faction (of a party)
reformist group
reformist
dissidents; people who are against the Establishment; anti-Establishment groups
classical school or style (e.g. of music, baseball pitching, etc.); orthodox school; authentic style; purist; follower of the orthodox school
hawks; hardline faction; hardliner
(actor) relying on acting skills (rather than good looks, etc.)
dog person
both groups; both factions
cat person
supporters of the shogun
royalists; royalist faction
classical school
faction; denomination; communion
dove; moderate; soft-liner
active people; doers; people who get things done
social awareness (e.g. in fiction)
each party; each faction; all sects
unique type; one of a kind
sending out; dispatching; despatching
various parties or factions; minor parties
the symbolist school
Imperial Way Faction (of the Imperial Japanese Army)
Control Faction (of the Imperial Japanese Army)
futurism
dispatch; despatch
postwar generation
anti-mainstream faction; fringe group; dissident group
the other group
Shia (Islam)
Presbyterian Church; Presbyterians
war party; warmonger
the skeptics (in philosophy) (sceptics)
Sunni (Islam)
pro-Japanese group; Japanophiles
Pharisees
the Essenes
(the) Cynics
the war generation
aesthetic school
urban; yuppy
middle-of-the-roaders; neutralists; independents
separatists; secessionists
Nikaya (early sectarian) Buddhism
the reactionaries
Honganji sect (of Shin Buddhism)
Lutheranism
same sect; same faction
the Sadducees
Japan Revolutionary Communist League-National Committee; JRCL; (lit.) Middle Core Faction; Japanese far-left revolutionary group
Buraiha (post-WWII group of dissolute Japanese writers); Decadent School
humanists
prewar generation
evangelicals
middle-of-the-roaders; neutrals
Yogacara (school); Yogachara
historical school (of economics)
neoclassicism
Flemish school (of art)
Danrin school (of haikai poetry)
Fauvism; the Fauvists
transcendentalists; Parnassians
Sunni (Islam); Sunnah
Nestorian sect (of Christianity)
Otani sect (of Shin Buddhism)
the avant-garde
Wahhabism; Wahabism (orthodox Sunni sect of Islam)
Maoist group
the Encyclopedists
group that is knowledgeable about Japan
Germanic (branch of languages)
Seizan sect (of Pure Land Buddhism)
Satanic school
Druze; Druse; Islamic sect primarily found in Syria and Lebanon
Druze; Druse; Islamic sect primarily found in Syria and Lebanon
Ismailism; branch of Shia Islam
pleinairism; pleinairisme; cult of the open air; painter of pleinairisme; pleinairist
Adventists
dispatching to the US; despatching to the US
Omuro (sect of Shingon Buddhism)
Machimura Faction (of the LDP)
Ibuki Faction (of the LDP)
Yamasaki Faction (of the LDP)
Komura Faction (of the LDP)
Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)
Albanian (branch of languages)
Armenian (branch of languages)
Iranian (branch of languages)
Indonesian (branch of languages)
Celtic (branch of languages)
Tai languages; Zhuang-Tai languages
Mongolic (branch of languages)
Kibe sect (of Shin Buddhism)
Yamamoto sect (of Shin Buddhism); Sangen sect
Yamamoto sect (of Shin Buddhism); Sangen sect
Sanmonto sect (of Shin Buddhism)
Sanmonto sect (of Shin Buddhism)
blue-stocking ladies
Shinto Shūsei-ha (sect of Shinto)
Chisan sect (of Shingi Shingon Buddhism); Chizan sect
Chisan sect (of Shingi Shingon Buddhism); Chizan sect
Sanchō Sect (of the Fuji School of Nichiren Buddhism; 1661-1673 CE)
Flemish school (of music)
neoclassical school (of economics)
ordinary language school (of analytic philosophy)
Consciousness-Only School (of Buddhism); Yogacara
Alawi; Islamic mystical group centred in Syria
Twelver Shiism (branch of Shia Islam)
Sevener Shiism; branch of Shia Islam
advocates of protection of the Constitution; supporter of the current Constitution
Alevism; Alevi
Alevism; Alevi
Alevism; Alevi
(the) Cynics
Charvaka (ancient school of Indian materialism); Lokayata
vaccine opponent; anti-vaxxer
Nikai faction (of the Liberal Democratic Party); Shisuikai
Examples (6 in total)
I'm a cat person.
Are you a coffee or a tea drinker?
Which party do you belong to?