种 zhǒng▶ loài

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loại
• 品种chủng loại; đa dạng
• 播种Gieo hạt
• 种子hạt giống
• 种族chủng tộc; cuộc đua
• 种植thực vật; trồng

种 is pronounced zhǒng and means “loài”. 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.