种
zhǒngTraditional: 種
#1852 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
kind, sort, type; (measure word for kinds or types)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound combining 禾 (hé, grain) with 重 (zhòng, phonetic), originally meaning seed, then extended to kind or type.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 禾 (hé, grain) + 重 (zhòng, phonetic)
Stroke order
种
Examples
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This kind of fruit is very sweet.
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The shop has all kinds of books.
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I like this sort of colour.
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He has encountered two different sorts of situation.
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This is a very useful kind of method.
种 (zhǒng) means a kind, sort or type, and is the common measure word for categories of things. The same character read zhòng means to plant or sow.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 种.
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