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種

zhǒng

seed; race; offspring; to plant

Strokes
14
Radical
禾
HSK
—
Tone
3

Other readings: chóng

Simplified form: 种

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 种, the simplified form of 種. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 我不是这种人。

    Wǒ bù shì zhè zhǒng rén

    I'm not that kind of person.

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  • 我不种他们的树。

    Wǒ bù zhòng tā men de shù

    I'm not planting their trees.

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  • 我不想这种事发生。

    Wǒ bù xiǎng zhè zhǒng shì fā shēng

    I don't want something like this to happen.

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  • 我从没说过那种话。

    Wǒ cóng méi shuō guo nà zhǒng huà

    I'd never say something like that.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 种

  • 种zhǒng 3seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts
  • 各种gè zhǒng 4–3 every kind of; all kinds of; various
  • 种子zhǒng zi 3–5seed
  • 多种duō zhǒng 1–3 many kinds of; multiple; diverse; multi-
  • 种植zhòng zhí 4–2 to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
  • 种类zhǒng lèi 3–4 kind; genus; type; category; variety; species; sort; class
  • 品种pǐn zhǒng 3–3 → 2–3breed; variety
  • 种种zhǒng zhǒng 3–3 → 2–3all kinds of
  • 种族zhǒng zú 3–2 race; ethnicity
  • 播种bō zhòng 1–4 to grow (maize etc) from seed; to plant (maize etc) by sowing seed
  • 种zhòng 4to plant; to grow; to cultivate
  • 播种bō zhǒng 1–3 to sow seeds