系 (xì, jì) — Chinese Character

系

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:

丿糸

Semantic component: 糸.

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 系.

世系

shì xì

lineage

体系

tǐ xì

system

佛系

fó xì

关系

guān xi

relation

品系

pǐn xì

strain (of a species)

大系

dà xì

奉系

fèng xì

Fengtian clique (of northern warlords)

嫡系

dí xì

direct line of descent

干系

gān xì

responsibility

报系

bào xì

newspaper chain

支系

zhī xì

branch or subdivision of a family

旁系

páng xì

Characters that share the radical 糸.

Practice this character with stroke-order training, spaced repetition, and reading passages across all HSK levels.