漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
係: person in charge, connection
Also: duty, concern oneself
JLPT N39 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 系 gives the sound
9 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five readings, and the words that use each
ケイkei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 関係するかんけいするbe related to
- 連係するれんけいするwork in a team
かかるkakaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 係るかかるaffect, concern, depend on
かかりkakari · kun'yomi
- 係かかりperson in charge
-がかり-gakari · kun'yomi
- 案内係あんないがかりclerk at the information desk
かかわるkakawaru · kun'yomi
- 係わるかかわるbe involved
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 (meaning) + 系 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 係 (rev. 94495456), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 系 · traditional, as in Japanese · xì
Japan keeps the traditional form 係; mainland China simplifies it to 系.
- Simplified
- 系 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 係 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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