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Chinese symbol for “compendium”

大系
dà xì
compendium

The closest CC-CEDICT match for compendium is 大系 (dà xì), defined as: compendium.

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Characters and stroke order

大 dà
big, great, vast, high, deep
radical 37 ⼤ · 3 strokes
系 xì
system; line, link, connection
radical 120 ⽷ · 7 strokes

Other Chinese words for “compendium”

WordPinyinMeaning
简编 (簡編)jiǎn biānconcise edition; abridged edition; compendium
总汇 (總匯)zǒng huì(of streams) to come together; to converge; confluence; (fig.) compendium; (fig.) aggregation

Related words

Other words that share a character with 大系.

WordPinyinMeaning
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
大家dà jiāeveryone; influential family
大量dà liànggreat amount; large quantity
大陆 (大陸)dà lùcontinent; mainland; 块 (kuài)
大会 (大會)dà huìgeneral assembly; general meeting
重大zhòng dàgreat; important
关系 (關係)guān xirelation; relationship; connection; to concern; to involve; to affect
系统 (系統)xì tǒngsystem; 个 (gè)

See also: Japanese symbol for “compendium”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.