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
- —視覚系visual system; ophthalmencephalon
- —脈管系vascular system
- —近交系inbred line; inbred strain
- —中国系Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.); Sino-
- —草食系man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; herbivore
- —肉食系man's man; man aggressively pursuing sex and riches; carnivore
- —雑食系man who is neither overly aggressive nor overly passive in pursuing sex and riches; omnivore
- —理系女woman in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics); female scientist
- —半島系Korean living in Japan; person of Korean descent
- —連星系binary system
- —水管系water-vascular system
- —複雑系complex system
- —系列的paradigmatic; prototypical; representative
- —法体系legal structure; legal system; jurisprudence
- —血管系blood circulatory system; vascular system
- —裏原系Ura-Hara fashion; fashion style associated with a section of the Harajuku neighbourhood of Tokyo
- —分散系disperse system; dispersoid
- —同系語cognate language
- —独立系independent; unaffiliated; self-funding
- —赤系統the reds; reddish colors