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系 — to tie; to fasten; to button up

Pinyin
jì · xì
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — jì, xì — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 系: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

系 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 系 in the HSK syllabus: 10

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 没关系méi guānxiit doesn't matterHSK 1
  2. 关系guānxìrelation; relationship; to concern; to affectHSK 3
  3. 联系liánxìconnection; contact; relation; to get in touch withHSK 4
  4. 系jìto connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to beHSK 5
  5. 系xìto connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to beHSK 5
  6. 系统xìtǒngsystemHSK 5
  7. 体系tǐxìsystem; setupHSK 6
  8. 系列xìlièseries; setHSK 6
  9. 一系列yíxìlièa series of; a string ofHSK 6
  10. 星系xīngxì—HSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.