zhǒng

Traditional: 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

Stroke order for 种

Examples

This kind of fruit is very sweet.

The shop has all kinds of books.

I like this sort of colour.

He has encountered two different sorts of situation.

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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This word is part of lesson 38.