Chinese Character Wiki
种

zhǒng, zhòng

seed

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 中 represents the sound. Simplified form of 種.

Components
禾 meaning component

禾  Meaning component

hé

  

grain stalk

中 sound component

中  Sound component

zhōng, zhòng

  

central

Evolution

种 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
种 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

种 (種) 

zhǒng

seed; race; offspring; to plant; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts

种 (種) 

zhòng

to grow; to cultivate

Most common words with 种
Freq.
Word
Meaning

种

seed

这种

this

各种

every kind of

那种

that

某种

some kind (of)

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 96.6523% of movies

192nd most common character in movies

57th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

種

Unicode

U+79CD


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