[in sing.][treated as pl.]one's family and relations 亲戚 his kin are entrepreneurs. 他的亲戚是企业家。
adjective
[predic.](of a person) related (人)有亲戚关系的。 参见 akin he was kin to the brothers. 他和那些兄弟有亲戚关系。
派生 kinless adjective 语源
Old English cynn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kunne, from an Indo-European root meaning 'give birth to', shared by Greek genos and Latin genus 'race'