(lèi) - kind, type, category (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
lèiTraditional: 类
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Translation
kind, type, category (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A compound character: 米 (mǐ, rice grains) over 大 (dà, big) beside 犬 (quǎn, dog), used for the idea of sorting things of the same kind, hence a kind, type, or category.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 米 (mǐ, rice) + 犬 (quǎn, dog)
Stroke order
类
Examples
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Humanity needs to protect the Earth.
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This kind of problem is very common.
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Human history is long.
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This kind of problem is very common.
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The books are arranged by category.
类 (lèi) means kind, type, or category. It is a bound morpheme and appears in many compounds, including 人类 (rén lèi), humankind.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 类.
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