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HSK
it doesn't matter
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *係* | 係* | *係
to connect / to relate to / to tie up / to bind / to be (literary)
HSK 3
relation / relationship / to concern / to affect / to have to do with / guanxi / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *系* | 系* | *系
system / department / faculty
HSK 3
connection / contact / relation / to get in touch with / to integrate / to link / to touch
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繫* | 繫* | *繫
to connect / to arrest / to worry
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繫* | 繫* | *繫
to tie / to fasten / to button up
HSK 4
(neologism c. 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society)
(university education) major
barred spiral galaxy
variant of 關係|关系
HSK 3
to transfer (from one unit to another)
Sino-Russian relations
public relations
interpersonal relationship
international relations
foreign relations / diplomatic relations
foreign relations
Sino-Japanese relations
lineage / genealogy / family tree
system / setup / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
department of chemistry
system of thought / ideology
stake / vital interest / concern
(regional) cuisine
solar system
relations between levels of production / socio-economic relations
maternal / matriarchal
Andromeda galaxy M31
to be connected / to be related
Andromeda galaxy M31
(math.) recurrence relation
to have sexual relations with sb / to have dealings with
anglophone / English department
department of foreign languages / modern languages (college department)
drainage system
sexual relations / sexual contact / intercourse
paternal line / patrilineal
social credit system, a system that incentivizes individuals and businesses by creating consequences for good and bad behavior
improper relationship; illicit relationship
mutually related / interconnected
responsibility
periodic system / periodicity (chemistry)
(slang, coined c. 2017, contrasted with 佛系) Dao-type, a type of person who has traits associated with a Daoist approach to life, such as being active, optimistic, earthy and forthright
Physical Education department
political relations
economic system
Ordovician system (geology)
to link / to connect
Indo-European family of languages
(attributive) of Japanese origin
evolutionary line / line of descent
to seek contact with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
frame of reference
National Health Service (UK)
(Tw) ecosystem
to maintain / to keep up / to hold together
(math.) equivalence relation
root system
coordinate system (geometry)
extragalactic star system / galaxy (not including our Galaxy)
sect / faction
man-woman connection / intimate relationship
ancestry / lineage / pedigree / also written 祖係|祖系
the eight major cuisines of China, namely 川魯粵蘇浙閩湘徽|川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽
direct line of descent / under one's personal command / school or faction passing on faithfully one's doctrine
to enroll without declaring one's major or department (in one's first year(s) of university)
phylogenetic relationship
Milky Way Galaxy / the galaxy (our galaxy)
stellar system / galaxy
directly related
industrial relations / relations between labor and capital
department
pedigree
cold relations (e.g. between countries)
relationship that is more than friendship
newspaper chain / syndicate
special relation
carboniferous system / coal measure (geology)
branch or subdivision of a family
uplifting; rejuvenating; heartwarming
crystal system
interrelationship
strain (of a species)
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands
shady relationship / affair / adulterous relationship
institute of Sinology / faculty of Sinology
Hamito-Semitic family of languages (incl. Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew etc)
Fengtian clique (of northern warlords)
medical school
compendium
fold mountain system (geology)
Silurian system (geology) / see 志留紀|志留纪
relations between labor and employer / industrial relations
Beiyang faction of Northern Warlords
Sino-Tibetan language family
blood relationship; consanguinity
triangular relationship; (esp.) a love triangle

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