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HSK
it doesn't matter
HSK 1
relation / relationship / to concern / to affect / to have to do with / guanxi / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
connection / contact / relation / to get in touch with / to integrate / to link / to touch
HSK 3
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to connect / to relate to / to tie up / to bind / to be (literary)
HSK 3
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  *系* | 系* | *系
system / department / faculty
HSK 3
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  *系* | 系* | *系
to connect / to arrest / to worry
HSK 3
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to tie / to fasten / to button up
HSK 4
system / setup / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
(neologism c. 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society)
(university education) major
phylogenetic relationship
barred spiral galaxy
to have sexual relations with sb / to have dealings with
social credit system, a system that incentivizes individuals and businesses by creating consequences for good and bad behavior
coordinate system (geometry)
interpersonal relationship
public relations
department of chemistry
sexual relations / sexual contact / intercourse
triangular relationship; (esp.) a love triangle
lineage / genealogy / family tree
improper relationship; illicit relationship
Sino-Russian relations
Sino-Japanese relations
to seek contact with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
variant of 關係|关系
HSK 3
(regional) cuisine
maternal / matriarchal
mutually related / interconnected
foreign relations / diplomatic relations
Ordovician system (geology)
foreign relations
to maintain / to keep up / to hold together
periodic system / periodicity (chemistry)
Andromeda galaxy M31
special relation
Andromeda galaxy M31
international relations
man-woman connection / intimate relationship
responsibility
department of foreign languages / modern languages (college department)
drainage system
(math.) equivalence relation
to be connected / to be related
Sino-Tibetan language family
variant of 聯繫|联系
HSK 3
blood relationship; consanguinity
industrial relations / relations between labor and capital
stellar system / galaxy
uplifting; rejuvenating; heartwarming
paternal line / patrilineal
(Tw) ecosystem
(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
relations between levels of production / socio-economic relations
Physical Education department
system of thought / ideology
(attributive) of Japanese origin
social relation
language family
stake / vital interest / concern
root system
extragalactic star system / galaxy (not including our Galaxy)
sect / faction
ancestry / lineage / pedigree / also written 祖係|祖系
(math.) recurrence relation
the eight major cuisines of China, namely 川魯粵蘇浙閩湘徽|川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽
Indo-European family of languages
solar system
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)
institute of Sinology / faculty of Sinology
interrelationship
(Tw) (university education) minor
to link / to connect
system of polar coordinates
directly related
Hamito-Semitic family of languages (incl. Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew etc)
political relations
spiral galaxy
department
frame of reference / coordinate frame (math.)
strain (of a species)
National Health Service (UK)
carboniferous system / coal measure (geology)
cubical system (crystallography) / crystal system based on cubic lattice / equiaxial crystal system
to transfer (from one unit to another)
branch or subdivision of a family
(idiom) favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (idiom) (by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates
to be promiscuous / to sleep around
Milky Way Galaxy / the galaxy (our galaxy)
medical school
crystal system
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands
economic system
cold relations (e.g. between countries)
Fengtian clique (of northern warlords)
pedigree
compendium

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