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

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: As this is the second character in 关系 (guanxi), I'll use shaking hands as the symbol for 系.

= 丿 + : In the space station's bathroom, Marie Curie found a new binding mechanism in chemistry. To demonstrate her findings, she binds two bananas together with a silk scarf. She celebrates her findings by shaking her own hand over her head.
system / department / faculty

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: As this is the second character in 关系 (guanxi), I'll use shaking hands as the symbol for 系.

= 丿 + : In the space station's bathroom, Marie Curie found a new binding mechanism in chemistry. To demonstrate her findings, she binds two bananas together with a silk scarf. She celebrates her findings by shaking her own hand over her head.
to tie / to fasten / to button up
to connect / to arrest / to worry

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: As this is the second character in 关系 (guanxi), I'll use shaking hands as the symbol for 系.

= 丿 + : In the space station's bathroom, Marie Curie found a new binding mechanism in chemistry. To demonstrate her findings, she binds two bananas together with a silk scarf. She celebrates her findings by shaking her own hand over her head.

系 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
fine silk / Kangxi radical 120

= + : In the space station's bathroom, Marilyn Monroe uses zero gravity to fulfill her lifelong dream of flying on a carpet like Aladdin. In the space station she doesn't have a carpet, but she has a large ace on which she sits. She uses a silken scarf as a turban, and she holds a daisy in her hand as magic wand.

Characters with 系 as component

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

= 丿 + : In the space station's bathroom, Marie Curie found a new binding mechanism in chemistry. To demonstrate her findings, she binds two bananas together with a silk scarf. She celebrates her findings by shaking her own hand over her head.

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: As this is the second character in 关系 (guanxi), I'll use shaking hands as the symbol for 系.
county

= + : Marie Curie (xi) and the county manager of her home county are manufacturing maps of her home county (县) inside of the anthill's bathroom (an4). The county has a very special form which you can reproduce by smashing a fake nose (厶) with a shelf (且).
surname Sun

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) was lucky enough to catch and eat a mosquito (孑) in front of the encampment ((e)n1), but two weeks later, the mosquito's grandson (孙) comes to fight Susan Saint Bernard and avenge the death of his grandfather. Susan Saint Bernard is a little embarrassed and offers a daisy (小) as peace offering.
grandson / descendant

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) was lucky enough to catch and eat a mosquito (孑) in front of the encampment ((e)n1), but two weeks later, the mosquito's grandson (孙) comes to fight Susan Saint Bernard and avenge the death of his grandfather. Susan Saint Bernard is a little embarrassed and offers a daisy (小) as peace offering.
old variant of 繁[fan2]

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) sneezes without end in the anthill's kitchen (an2) after coming in. He doesn't know that he's allergic (敏) against his fine silk scarf (糸). How should he, since he doesn't have an immune system it seems complicated (繁) how this allergy should even work.
old variant of 綿|绵[mian2] / cotton
folk-song / forced labor
cause / means
interpretations of the trigrams
Gun, mythical father of Yu the Great 大禹[Da4 Yu3]
variant of 鯀|鲧[Gun3]

Words with 系

lineage / genealogy / family tree
improper relation / adulterous relation
a binomial coefficient (math.) / the number of combinations
mutually related / interconnected
paraphyletic group / also written 並系群|并系群[bing4 xi4 qun2]
triangle relationship; (esp.) a love triangle
improper relationship; illicit relationship
variant of 並系群|并系群[bing4 xi4 qun2]
triangle relationship / a love triangle

Sentences with 系

系 currently does not appear in any sentence.