系

See also 係, and 繫

Translingual

Han character

系 (radical 120 糸+1, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹女戈火 (HVIF), four-corner 2090₃, composition ⿱丿糸)

1. system
2. line, link, connection
3. department

Derived characters

• 係 縣

References

• KangXi: page 915, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27223
• Dae Jaweon: page 1342, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3361, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7CFB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

系 (traditional 係, jyutping hai6, Yale hai6)

1. yes
2. is, there is

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Japanese

Kanji

系 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: けい (kei)
• Kun: つなぐ (tsunagu)

Compounds

• 経絡系 (けいらくけい, keirakukei): the meridian system
• 系図
• 系統 (けいとう, keitō): system; genealogy
• 系譜
• 系列 (けいれつ, keiretsu): a series; a kind of corporate conglomerate particular to Japan.

Suffix

系 (hiragana けい, romaji -kei)

1. system, family

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Korean

Hanja

系 (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

系 (traditional 係, 繫, pinyin jì (ji4), xì (xi4), Wade-Giles chi⁴, hsi⁴)

Compounds

• 系绊
• 系词
• 系缚
• 系怀
• 系累
• 系列
• 系列化
• 系列剧
• 系列片
• 系念
• 系谱
• 系谱树
• 系数
• 系统
• 系统工程
• 系于