# 係 — Connection

Frequency rank 201 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 直 (Straight), less common than 違 (Different).

- On’yomi: けい
- Kun’yomi: かか、かかり
- Radical: 人 Person (Kangxi 9)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The Leader drives a stake into the Ground at Shibuya crossing and knots a Thread from it around a striding pair of bare legs.

In words:

- 係 かかり — official,duty,person in charge
- 係り かかり — official;duty;person in charge
- 係わる かかわる — to concern oneself in,to have to do with,to affect,to influence,to stick to (opinions)

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