Chinese symbol for “parentage”
血统
xuè tǒng
Traditional: 血統
blood relationship; lineage; parentage
The closest CC-CEDICT match for parentage is 血统 (xuè tǒng), defined as: blood relationship; lineage; parentage.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 血统.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 血液 | xuè yè | blood; (fig.) lifeblood |
| 血腥 | xuè xīng | reeking of blood; bloody (events) |
| 流血 | liú xuè | to bleed; to shed blood |
| 血管 | xuè guǎn | vein; artery |
| 吸血鬼 | xī xuè guǐ | leech; bloodsucking vermin |
| 系统 (系統) | xì tǒng | system; 个 (gè) |
| 总统 (總統) | zǒng tǒng | president (of a country) |
| 传统 (傳統) | chuán tǒng | tradition; traditional |
See also: Japanese symbol for “parentage”.
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.