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星系

xīng xì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

星系 (xīng xì) means "see {恒星系|héng xīng xì}". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 星系 means

1. see {恒星系|héng xīng xì}

The characters in 星系

• 星xīngstar; heavenly body; satellite
• 系xìto connect; to relate to; to tie up

Example sentences

• 在宇宙中有很多星系。
  There are many galaxies in the universe.
• 宇宙里有多少个星系呀？
  Yǔzhòu lǐ yǒu duōshao gè xīngxì ya?
  How many galaxies are there in the universe?
• 大多数大星系的中心都有一个超大质量黑洞。
  Dàduōshù dà xīngxì de zhōngxīn dōu yǒu yī gè chāo dà zhìliàng hēidòng.
  Most large galaxies have a central supermassive black hole.
• 天文学家们发现了一个几乎没有暗物质的星系。
  Tiānwénxuéjiā men fāxiàn le yī gè jīhū méiyǒu àn wùzhì de xīngxì.
  Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has almost no dark matter.
• 小星系「只」有数千颗星，最大的星系则有数万亿颗。
  Smaller galaxies have "only" a few thousand stars. The biggest ones have trillions.
• 几个世纪以来，天文学家相信银河构成了整个宇宙。哈勃第一个证明了通过望远镜看到的天空中的模糊花斑是其他星系，而不是银河系的遥远部分。
  Jǐge shìjì yǐlái, tiānwénxuéjiā xiāngxìn Yínhé gòuchéng le zhěnggè yǔzhòu. Hābó dìyī gè zhèngmíng le tōngguò wàngyuǎnjìng kàn dào de tiānkōng zhōng de móhu huābān shì qítā xīngxì, ér bù shì Yínhéxì de yáoyuǎn bùfen.
  For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way.

Words starting with 星系

• 星系盘xīng xì pángalactic disc

Words containing 星系

• 河外星系hé wài xīng xìextragalactic star system; galaxy (not including our Galaxy)
• 棒旋星系bàng xuán xīng xìbarred spiral galaxy
• 恒星系héng xīng xìstellar system; galaxy
• 仙女星系Xiān nǚ xīng xìAndromeda galaxy M31
• 仙女座星系Xiān nǚ zuò xīng xìAndromeda galaxy M31
• 旋涡星系xuán wō xīng xìspiral galaxy

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