Chinese symbol for “seed”
种
zhǒng
Traditional: 種
seed; species; kind; type
The closest CC-CEDICT match for seed is 种 (zhǒng), defined as: seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “seed”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 种子 (種子) | zhǒng zi | seed; 颗 (kē),粒 (lì) |
| 籽 | zǐ | seed (of a plant) |
| 子 | zǐ | son; child |
| 实 (實) | shí | real; true |
| 子粒 | zǐ lì | seed |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 种.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 这种 (這種) | zhè zhǒng | this kind of |
| 一种 (一種) | yī zhǒng | one kind of; one type of |
| 各种 (各種) | gè zhǒng | every kind of; all kinds of; various |
| 那种 (那種) | nà zhǒng | that kind of |
| 种种 (種種) | zhǒng zhǒng | all kinds of |
| 多种 (多種) | duō zhǒng | many kinds of; multiple; diverse; multi- |
See also: Japanese symbol for “seed”.
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.