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系

系

See also: 糸, 繫, and 係

Translingual

Traditional 繫
Shinjitai 繋
Simplified 系
Stroke order

Han character

系 (radical 120 糸+1, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹女戈火 (HVIF), four-corner 20903, composition ⿱丿糸)

References

  • KangXi: page 915, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27223
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1342, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3361, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7CFB

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (系) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
係 *keːɡs
系 *ɡeːɡs

Exists as a traditional character, with simplified forms:

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 系

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 系
Mandarin Beijing /ɕi⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕi⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕi⁵³/
Jinan /ɕi²¹/
Qingdao /ɕi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕi³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕi⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕji²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕi¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕi¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕi²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕi³⁵/
Chengdu /ɕi¹³/
Guiyang /ɕi²¹³/
Kunming /ɕi²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕi⁴⁴/
Hefei /sz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕi⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕi³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦi²³/
Suzhou /ɦi³¹/
Hangzhou /ɕi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /ji²²/
Hui Shexian /ɕi²²/
Tunxi /ɕie¹¹/ 關～
/t͡ɕie⁴²/ ～帶子
Xiang Changsha /ɕi⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ɕi²¹/
Hakka Meixian /hi⁵³/
Taoyuan /hi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɐi²²/
Nanning /hɐi²²/
Hong Kong /hɐi²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /he²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hiɛ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xi⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hi³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hi³³/
Rime
Character 系
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦeiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦeiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣeiH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 系
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m]-kˤek-s/
English bind (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 系
Reading # 1/1
No. 13427
Phonetic
component		 系
Rime
group		 賜
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 蒵
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡeːɡs/

Definitions

系

  1. department; faculty
    中文系  ―  zhōngwén xì  ―  Chinese language facutly
  2. system
    太陽系 / 太阳系  ―  Tàiyángxì  ―  the Solar system

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 系 – see 繫.
(This character, 系, is the simplified form of 繫.)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 系 – see 係.
(This character, 系, is the simplified form of 係.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

系

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

系 ‎(hiragana けい, romaji -kei)

  1. system, family

Korean

Hanja

系 • ‎(gye) (hangeul 계, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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