Chinese Character Wiki
系

xì, jì

system

Pictograph of a hand (又) holding a group of threads (糸) that are connected together (系).

Components
又 iconic component

又  Iconic component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Depicts a hand.

糸 iconic component

糸  Iconic component

mì

  

silk

Depicts a group of threads.

Evolution

系 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
系 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
系 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

系 (係) 

xì

bind, tie up; involve, relation; to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary)

系  

xì

system; department; faculty

系 (繫) 

xì

attach, connect, unite, fasten; to arrest; to worry

系 (繫) 

jì

to tie; to fasten; to button up

Most common words with 系
Freq.
Word
Meaning

关系

relation

系统

system

联系

connection

系

to connect

没关系

it doesn't matter

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (1 verified)

孫 繇

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

係 鲧

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

係 縣

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

县

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m]-kˤek-s

hejH

xì

bind (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 90.9018% of movies

268th most common character in movies

216th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

係繫

Unicode

U+7CFB

Shuowen

“系，繫也。从糸，丿聲。，系或从、處。，籀文系从爪、絲。”


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