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Mythic Mandarin

系 (xì): meaning and stroke order

系 (xì) means system, department, faculty, to connect, to arrest, to worry, to relate to, to tie up.

系

Simplified
系
Traditional
系, 繫, 係
Pinyin
xì · jì

Stroke order of 系

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 系

  1. xì
    • system
    • department
    • faculty
  2. xì Traditional 繫
    • to connect
    • to arrest
    • to worry
  3. xì Traditional 係
    • to connect
    • to relate to
    • to tie up
    • to bind
    • to be (literary)
  4. jì Traditional 繫
    • to tie
    • to fasten
    • to button up

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 系

系 in our stories

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  • 比赛那天早上，起点挤满了两万多名选手。人群中有一位头发花白的配速员，背上系着一个写着“四小时”的红气球。

    bǐsài nà tiān zǎoshang qǐdiǎn jǐmǎn le liǎngwàn duō míng xuǎnshǒu rénqún zhōng yǒu yí wèi tóufa huābái de pèisùyuán bèi shàng jì zhe yí gè xiě zhe sì xiǎoshí de hóng qìqiú

    On race morning more than twenty thousand runners were packed at the start. In the crowd was a grey-haired pacer with a red balloon tied to his back that read "four hours".

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 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).