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Keyword
lineage
Info
FrequencyTop 800-900
Type
Kyōiku (6th grade) 
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KankenLevel 5
Heisig1492
Readings
けい
(100%)
Composed of
丿
slash left
糸
thread
Mnemonic

No matter how hard you slash at it, you can never sever the thread of your lineage.

Used in kanji (4 in total)
係
be involved with
孫
grandchild
繇
???
縣
prefecture [old]
Used in vocabulary (364 in total)
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
family lineage
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Examples (23 in total)
He decided to perform systematic research.
Tom is an American of German descent.
Did you come from a musical family?
His younger brother also worked in the field of art.
Will humanity be able to prevent the degradation of ecosystems?
Tom works for an Australian company.
Mary works for a Canadian company.
Mary went to a Catholic school.
Mary went to a Catholic high school.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.
There are innumerable stars in the galaxy.
He is descended from a musical family.
I often listen to soothing music in order to relax.
Neptune is the eighth planet of the solar system.
He is of Japanese ancestry.
What's different between a wedding arrangement site and a dating site?
This isn't a dating site.
My maternal grandmother persists in wearing that old-fashioned dress.
The ancient Greeks knew as much about the solar system as we do.
The coastal ecosystem of British Columbia is rapidly declining.
Schrodinger's equation describes the time evolution of quantum mechanics.
Are you not satisfied with the Japanese writing system?