种 zhǒng▶ especie

Stroke order

种 is written in 9 strokes.

• 种

Senses

1. seed
2. species
3. kind
4. type
5. classifier for types, kinds, sorts

Example sentences

• 这种茶很好喝。Zhè zhǒng chá hěn hǎo hē.This kind of tea is very tasty.
• 商店里有很多种水果。Shāngdiàn lǐ yǒu hěn duō zhǒng shuǐguǒ.There are many kinds of fruit in the shop.

Related words

• 种类tipo
• 品种Variedades
• 播种Sembrar
• 种子semilla
• 种族raza; carrera
• 种植planta

种 is pronounced zhǒng and means “especie”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 种 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.