系统

Character by character

• 系xì7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 係system; line, link, connection
• 统tǒng9 strokesHSK 4 traditional 統govern, command, control; unite

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 系统运行起来了。

  Xì tǒng yùn xíng qǐ lai le

  The system worked.

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• 系统是线性的吗？

  Xì tǒng shì xiàn xìng de ma

  Is the system linear?

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 系统. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 关系guān xiHSK 3

  relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi

• 联系lián xìHSK 3

  connection; contact; relation; to get in touch with; to integrate; to link; to touch

• 总统zǒng tǒngHSK 4

  president (of a country)

• 传统chuán tǒngHSK 4

  tradition; traditional; convention; conventional

• 系xìHSK 3

  to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary)

• 系列xì lièHSK 4

  series; set

• 统一tǒng yīHSK 4

  to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated

• 统计tǒng jìHSK 4

  statistics; to count; to add up

• 没关系méi guān xiHSK 1

  it doesn't matter

• 体系tǐ xìHSK 7

  system; setup

• 统治tǒng zhìHSK 7

  to rule (a country); to govern; rule; regime

• 统统tǒng tǒngHSK 7

  totally

• 统筹tǒng chóuHSK 7

  an overall plan; to plan an entire project as a whole

• 一系列yī xì lièHSK 7

  a series of; a string of

• 笼统lǒng tǒngHSK 7

  general; broad; sweeping; lacking in detail; vague

• 统筹兼顾tǒng chóu jiān gù

  an overall plan taking into account all factors

• 系领带xì lǐng dài

  to wear a tie