種

種 (radical 115, 禾+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹木竹十土 (HDHJG), four-corner 2291₄, composition ⿰禾重)

• 𭢸, 𮃲, 𡽯, 𧀑, 𥵾, 㘒

Wikidata

• KangXi: page 856, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25174
• Dae Jaweon: page 1281, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2617, character 17
• Unihan data for U+7A2E

Historical forms of the character 種
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjoŋʔ, *tjoŋs) : semantic 禾 + phonetic 重 (OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs).

Perhaps Sino-Tibetan: Chepang [script needed] (tuŋʔ-, “to plant”), दुङ्‌ (duŋ, “shoot; sprout”), दुङ्‌सा (duŋ-, “to sprout; to grow”). Compare 腫 (OC *tjoŋʔ, “to swell”) and 踵 (OC *tjoŋʔ, “heel”).

Related to Proto-Vietic *k-coːŋʔ (“seed”) (Vietnamese giống (“seed”)), which is likely a loanword from Chinese (Wang, 1948).

種

1. seed; kernel; cereal

   菜種 / 菜种  ―  càizhǒng  ―  seed of vegetable

2. clan; ethnic group; ethnicity; race

   人種 / 人种  ―  rénzhǒng  ―  race

   種族 / 种族  ―  zhǒngzú  ―  ethnicity

3. species; breed
4. kind; sort; type
5. Classifier for varieties: kind; sort; type ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   各種 / 各种  ―  gèzhǒng  ―  every kind

   • 這種話你別再說了。 [MSC, trad.]
     这种话你别再说了。 [MSC, simp.]

     Zhè zhǒng huà nǐ bié zài shuō le. [Pinyin]

     Don't talk about those types of things anymore.

   • 1982, 許冠傑 (lyrics), “難忘您”, in 難忘您·紙船, performed by 許冠傑:

     難忘妳對我那種體貼入微，時時刻刻腦海中都緊記 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     难忘你对我那种体贴入微，时时刻刻脑海中都紧记 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     naan⁴ mong⁴ nei⁵ deoi³ ngo⁵ naa⁵ zung² tai² tip³ jap⁶ mei⁴, si⁴ si⁴ hak¹ hak¹ nou⁵ hoi² zung¹ dou¹ gan² gei³ [Jyutping]

     I can't forget that attention you gave me; it's still stuck fast in my mind all the time

   Synonyms: 類／类 (lèi)

6. (colloquial) guts; grit
7. A surname​.

種

1. ^† to sow; to strew
2. to grow; to plant; to cultivate

   種樹 / 种树  ―  zhòng shù  ―  to plant a tree

3. ^† to breed; to bring up
4. ^† to foster; to train
5. to transplant; to inoculate

種

1. ^† cereal that is to plant early and to harvest lately

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. seed
2. plant, sow
3. class, kind, variety
4. species (category in taxonomy)

• Go-on: しゅ (shu, Jōyō)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しよう (syou, historical)}
• Kun: たね (tane, 種, Jōyō); くさ (kusa, 種); くさわい (kusawai, 種)^{←くさはひ (kusafafi, historical)}
• Nanori: おさ (osa); おい (oi); かず (kazu); ぐさ (gusa); しげ (shige); た (ta); ふさ (fusa); ほ (ho)

From Old Japanese.

Possibly related to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tanəm; compare Indonesian tanam, Malay tanam (“to plant, bury”); Chamorro tanom (“to plant”), Samoan tanu (“to bury”); Cebuano tanum (“plant”). Another proposal connects this word with Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂ (“grain”); compare Sanskrit धाना (dhānā́, “grain”), Lithuanian dúona (“bread”), Tocharian B tāno (“grain”).

• (bloodline, lineage): 胤

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) た​ね [táꜜnè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠ne̞]

種 (hiragana たね, katakana タネ, rōmaji tane)

1. a seed

   Synonym: 種子 (shushi)

2. a pit or stone in a fruit

   Synonym: 実 (sane)

3. a gamete (reproductive cell such as a spermatozoan or egg)
4. a lineage, bloodline

   Synonyms: 血統 (kettō), 血筋 (chisuji)

5. an origin, cause

   Synonyms: 根源 (kongen), 原因 (gen'in)

6. the materials or ingredients from which something is made

   Synonyms: 原料 (genryō), 材料 (zairyō)

7. capital, funds, seed money

   Synonyms: 元金 (gankin, motokin), 元手 (motode)

• 種 (たね)が割 (わ)れる (tane ga wareru, “crack seeds → realize truth”)
• 種 (たね)を蒔 (ま)く (tane o maku, “sow seeds → make a cause”)
• 種 (たね)を宿 (やど)す (tane o yadosu, “plant a seed → conceive”)

• 精 (せい)子 (し) (seishi, “sperm”)
• 卵 (らん)子 (し) (ranshi, “egg”)

種 (hiragana たね, rōmaji Tane)

1. a female given name
2. a surname

From Old Japanese.

Possibly derived from or cognate with 草 (kusa, “grass”), from the way grass is grown from seeds, hence their origin.

• (cause of something): 草

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) くさ​ [kùsáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝsa̠]
• Pitch accent for counter unknown.

種 (hiragana くさ, rōmaji kusa)

1. an origin, cause
2. a type, class

   Synonyms: 種類 (shurui), 類い (tagui)

種 (hiragana くさ, rōmaji -kusa)

1. counter for number of kinds or types

⟨kusa papi₁⟩ → * /kusapapʲi/ → /kusafafi/ → /kusawawʲi/ → /kusawai/

Compound of 種 (kusa, “origin; type”) + 這い (hai, “widely spread out”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) 這う (hau, “to spread out widely”).

• 種わい

種 (hiragana くさわい, rōmaji kusawai, historical hiragana くさはひ)

1. an origin, cause

   Synonym: 原因 (gen'in)

2. a type, class

   Synonyms: 種類 (shurui), 類い (tagui)

3. an interest, appeal

   Synonyms: 趣 (omomuki), 面白み (omoshiromi)

/t͡ɕɨu/ → /ɕʲu/ → /ɕu/

From Middle Chinese 種 (MC t͡ɕɨoŋ^X).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) しゅ​ [shúꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕɨᵝ]

種 (hiragana しゅ, rōmaji shu)

1. a seed

   Synonym: 種子 (shushi)

2. a kind, type, sort, class, or category

   Synonyms: 種類 (shurui), 類い (tagui)

3. (taxonomy) a species

種 (eum 종 (jong))

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種: Hán Việt readings: chủng (主(chủ)勇(dũng)切(thiết))[1][2][3][4], chũng[5]
種: Nôm readings: giống[1][2][3][6][5][4][7], chỏng[3][6][5][4][7], chõng[1][5][4][7], chủng[2][3][6][7], trồng[1][2][3], chổng[6][7], truồng[1], giuống[7]

1. Hán tự form of chủng (“species; race; type; kind”).
2. Nôm form of giống (“kind; race; breed”).
3. Nôm form of trồng (“to plant”).