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关系 (guān xi): meaning and stroke order

关系 (guān xi) means relation, relationship, to concern, to affect, to have to do with, guanxi, 个.

关系

Simplified
关系
Traditional
關係, 關系
Pinyin
guān xi

Stroke order of 关系

关

  • Guān surname Guan
  • guān mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 關

Stroke by stroke

系

  • xì to connect; to relate to
  • xì system; department
  • jì to tie; to fasten
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 係

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 关系

  1. guān xi Traditional 關係
    • relation
    • relationship
    • to concern
    • to affect
    • to have to do with
    • guanxi
    • CL:個|个[ge4]
  2. guān xi Traditional 關系
    • variant of 關係|关系[guan1 xi5]

Radicals of the characters

关
Radical 八 (Kangxi radical 12) · 6 strokes · 丷 on top, 天 below
系
Radical 糸 (Kangxi radical 120) · 7 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

关系 in our stories

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  • 他对妻子说:“打仗是关系到生死的大事,这孩子却说得那么轻松。将来赵国要是让他带兵,军队一定会毁在他手里。”

    tā duì qīzi shuō dǎzhàng shì guānxì dào shēngsǐ de dàshì zhè háizi què shuō de nàme qīngsōng jiānglái Zhàoguó yàoshi ràng tā dàibīng jūnduì yídìng huì huǐ zài tā shǒu lǐ

    He said to his wife: "War is a matter of life and death, yet the boy talks about it so lightly. If Zhao ever puts him in command, the army is sure to be destroyed in his hands."

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 只有苏东坡不慌不忙,拄着竹杖,穿着草鞋,在雨中一边走一边吟诗,好像这场雨跟他没有关系。

    zhǐyǒu Sū Dōngpō bùhuāngbùmáng zhǔ zhe zhúzhàng chuān zhe cǎoxié zài yǔ zhōng yìbiān zǒu yìbiān yín shī hǎoxiàng zhè cháng yǔ gēn tā méiyǒu guānxì

    Only Su Dongpo was unhurried: leaning on his bamboo staff and wearing straw sandals, he walked on through the rain chanting poetry, as if the rain had nothing to do with him.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 关系

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).