Vocab Info

N2 Noun

系統(けいとう)system, lineage, ancestry, family line, group (e.g. of colors) (colours), family (e.g. of languages), party, school (of thought), close (evolutionary) relationship, a population sharing a common ancestor (in genetics), strain (e.g. bacterial)

    Dictionary Definition

    1. Noun

      1. 1.

        system

      2. 2.

        lineage, ancestry, family line

      3. 3.

        group (e.g. of colors) (colours), family (e.g. of languages), party, school (of thought)

      4. 4.

        close (evolutionary) relationship

      5. 5.

        a population sharing a common ancestor (in genetics), strain (e.g. bacterial)

    All Forms

    系統 【けいとう】

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    Examples

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    • 英語(えいご)とスペイン語(ご)は同(おな)じ系統(けいとう)の言語(げんご)だ。

      English and Spanish are languages of the same family.

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    • 母方(ははかた)の系統(けいとう)の人(ひと)はみんな背(せ)が高(たか)いです。

      Everyone on my mother's side of the family is tall.

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    • 彼(かれ)は青(あお)の系統(けいとう)の色(いろ)、つまり水色(みずいろ)や紫(むらさき)の服(ふく)をよく着(き)ている。

      He often wears colors in the blue family, that is, light blue and purple clothes.

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    • 胃腸(いちょう)炎(えん)になって以来(いらい)、消化(しょうか)器(き)の系統(けいとう)の不調(ふちょう)がよく出(で)るようになった。

      Since I got gastroenteritis, I often experience problems with my digestive system.

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    • 類人猿(るいじんえん)はやがて、ヒトの系統(けいとう)と区分(くぶん)される生物(せいぶつ)へと進化(しんか)していきました。

      Anthropoid apes eventually evolved into organisms that came to be classified as part of the human lineage.

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