Chinese symbol for “species”
物种
wù zhǒng
Traditional: 物種
species
The closest CC-CEDICT match for species is 物种 (wù zhǒng), defined as: species.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “species”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 菌种 (菌種) | jūn zhǒng | (microorganism) species; strain; (fungus and mushroom) spore; spawn |
| 种 (種) | zhǒng | seed; species |
| 种类 (種類) | zhǒng lèi | kind; genus |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 物种.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
| 动物 (動物) | dòng wù | animal |
| 物质 (物質) | wù zhì | matter; substance |
| 生物 | shēng wù | organism; living creature; life form; (attributive) biological; bio- |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
| 植物 | zhí wù | plant; vegetation |
| 这种 (這種) | zhè zhǒng | this kind of |
| 一种 (一種) | yī zhǒng | one kind of; one type of |
See also: Japanese symbol for “species”.
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.