Chinese symbol for “classification”
类别
lèi bié
Traditional: 類別
classification; category
The closest CC-CEDICT match for classification is 类别 (lèi bié), defined as: classification; category.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “classification”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 类别.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人类 (人類) | rén lèi | humanity; human race |
| 类似 (類似) | lèi sì | similar; analogous |
| 类型 (類型) | lèi xíng | type; kind; category; (computer programming) type |
| 分类 (分類) | fēn lèi | to classify |
| 之类 (之類) | zhī lèi | and so on; and such |
| 种类 (種類) | zhǒng lèi | kind; genus |
| 特别 (特別) | tè bié | unusual; special; very; especially; particularly |
| 别人 (別人) | bié ren | other people; others; other person |
See also: Japanese symbol for “classification”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.