Kanji1 / 7
系 kanji
lineage, system
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ケイ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 系
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2系統Popularsystem; lineage; ancestry; family line; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); party; school (of thought); close (evolutionary) relationship; a population sharing a common ancestor (in genetics); strain (e.g. bacterial)
- N2体系Popularsystem; organization; organisation; architecture
- N1系Popularsystem; lineage; group; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series; -type; -ish
- —家系Popularfamily lineage
- —系図Popularfamily tree; pedigree; genealogy
- —系譜Populargenealogy; lineage; family tree; pedigree
- —系列Popularseries; sequence; system; succession; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
- —直系Populardirect descent; direct line
- —日系Popular(of) Japanese descent; non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin; company, etc. set up with Japanese capital; company managed by Japanese or non-Japanese of Japanese descent
- —文系Popularhumanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts
- —理系Popularthe sciences; STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
- —山系Popularmountain range; mountain system
- —水系Popularwater system; river system; drainage system
- —生態系Popularecosystem
- —太陽系Popularsolar system
- —一系single-family lineage
- —正系legitimate line; direct descent
- —同系affiliated; akin
- —父系paternal line; father's side of the family
- —傍系collateral family; subsidiary line; affiliate; coset