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Chinese symbol for “subspecies”

亚种
yà zhǒng
Traditional: 亞種
subspecies (taxonomy)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for subspecies is 亚种 (yà zhǒng), defined as: subspecies (taxonomy).

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Characters and stroke order

亚 yà
Asia; second
radical 7 ⼆ · 6 strokes
种 zhǒng
race, kind, breed; seed; to plant
radical 115 ⽲ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 亚种.

WordPinyinMeaning
南亚 (南亞)nán Yàsouthern Asia
亚军 (亞軍)yà jūnsecond place (in a sports contest); runner-up
亚热带 (亞熱帶)yà rè dàisubtropical (zone or climate)
亚科 (亞科)yà kēsubfamily (taxonomy)
路亚 (路亞)lù yà(loanword) lure fishing
亚麻 (亞麻)yà máflax
这种 (這種)zhè zhǒngthis kind of
一种 (一種)yī zhǒngone kind of; one type of

See also: Japanese symbol for “subspecies”.

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.