xì, jì

to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary)

Radical: 糸 HSK 3 v, n pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

系 decomposes into the following components:

Semantic component: .

Words containing 系

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 系.

世系
shì xì
体系
tǐ xì
佛系
fó xì
关系
guān xi
品系
pǐn xì
大系
dà xì
奉系
fèng xì
嫡系
dí xì
干系
gān xì
报系
bào xì
支系
zhī xì
旁系
páng xì

Related characters (radical 糸)

Characters that share the radical .

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