亲缘

親緣
qīnyuán
noun #42,752

Meanings

  1. 1 blood relationship; kinship
  2. 2 genetic relatedness

Examples

HSK 4
Dàxióngmāo hé xióng de qīnyuán guānxi, bǐ hé xiǎoxióngmāo de jìn de duō.
The giant panda is far more closely related to bears than to the red panda.
HSK 5
Tāmen liǎ suīrán tóngxìng, dàn méiyou qīnyuán guānxi.
Although the two of them share a surname, they're not related.

Tips

usage
A formal, scientific word, nearly always in 亲缘关系, "relatedness". For family ties between people the everyday words are 血缘, blood ties, and 亲戚, relatives; 亲缘 also stretches to species and languages that share an ancestor.

Stroke Order

亲 qīn
缘 yuán