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种 — seed; species; kind

seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts

Pinyin
zhǒng · zhòng
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

This character has more than one reading — zhǒng, zhòng — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 种: 9 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

种 — 9 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 种 in the HSK syllabus: 11

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 种zhǒngto plant; to grow; to cultivateHSK 3
  2. 各种gèzhǒngevery kind of; all kinds of; variousHSK 4
  3. 种zhòngto plant; to grow; to cultivateHSK 4
  4. 品种pǐnzhǒngbreed; varietyHSK 5
  5. 种类zhǒnglèikind; genus; type; category; variety; species; sortHSK 5
  6. 种子zhǒngziseedHSK 5
  7. 种植zhòngzhíto plant; to grow; to cultivateHSK 5
  8. 播种bōzhǒngto sow seedsHSK 6
  9. 种地zhòngdìto farm; to work the landHSK 6
  10. 物种wùzhǒngspeciesHSK 7–9
  11. 种族zhǒngzúrace; ethnic groupHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.