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系

Lineage
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingケイ
  1. corollary
  2. system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period)

Homonyms

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Popular Usage

系統体系

Radicals and components

Components
How it's built
系
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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stick (丨) · drop (丶) · thread (糸) · spiderman

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1492

Compound words

彼が死んでこの村で一番古い家系が絶えてしまった。かけい
With his death, the oldest family in this village died out.tatoeba
音楽家の家系のお生まれですか。かけい
Did you come from a musical family?tatoeba
彼は日系人だ。
He is of Japanese ancestry.tatoeba
彼は系統立った調査を行うことにした。
He decided to perform systematic research.tatoeba
特筆すべき分系統
Noteworthy branch groupwiki
文保・半井本系統
Bunpo, the Nakaraibon linewiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

カントに依ると、アルヒテクトニックとは「体系の技術」であり、
かんとによると、あるひてくとにっくとは「たいけいのぎじゅつ」であり、According to Kant, architectonic is “the art of systems”,
アイス買ってきてよ、カップ系のやつ
あいすかってきてよ、かっぷけいのやつBuy ice cream for me, the cup kind.
見ることと働くこととの矛盾的自己同一的体系が身体である。
みることとはたらくこととのむじゅんてきじこどういつてきたいけいがしんたいである。Seeing and working in their contradictory self-identity as a system, that's the body.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

7 strokes

System, lineage. 丿 + 糸 (thread) — a hanging thread: the link between generations.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 系

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step