Chinese Character Wiki
種

zhǒng, zhòng

seed

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 重 represents the sound.

Components
禾 meaning component

禾  Meaning component

hé

  

grain stalk

重 sound component

重  Sound component

zhòng, chóng

  

heavy

Evolution

種 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
種 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
種 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 種
Freq.
Word
Meaning

种

seed

这种

this

各种

every kind of

那种

that

某种

some kind (of)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k.toŋʔ

tsyowngX

zhǒng

seed

*(mə-)toŋʔ-s

tsyowngH

zhòng

sow (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 96.6523% of movies

192nd most common character in movies

57th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

种

Unicode

U+7A2E

Shuowen

“種，先穜後孰也。从禾，重聲。”


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