Chinese symbol for “kind”
类
lèi
Traditional: 類
kind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
The closest CC-CEDICT match for kind is 类 (lèi), defined as: kind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “kind”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 种类 (種類) | zhǒng lèi | kind; genus |
| 类型 (類型) | lèi xíng | type; kind; category; (computer programming) type |
| 种 (種) | zhǒng | seed; species |
| 德 | dé | virtue; goodness |
| 淑 | shū | (bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable; (used in given names) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 类.
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “kind”.
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.