十種

Chinese

ten
 
to plant; to cultivate; kind; type; race; breed; seed; species (taxonomy)
trad. (十種)
simp. (十种)

Pronunciation


Noun

十種

  1. (Min Nan, derogatory) Alternative form of 雜種杂种 (cha̍p-chéng, “mongrel; half-breed”).
    In my native Hokkien dialect, the height of insult is to describe someone as tzup jeng — literally, "of ten breeds" - Amy Chua, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall
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