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種

JLPT N3 SL4 14 strokes Frequency: #461

Meanings

Species, Kind, Class, Variety, Seed

Radicals

禾

Decomposition

⿰禾重

Etymology

Pictophonetic: grain

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

4 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

5 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

6 diagonal right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

10 horizontal left-to-right

11 horizontal bottom-to-top

12 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

13 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

14 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

シュ shu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

たね tane

Words Using This Kanji

390 words total

Other (20 words)

良種りょうしゅ

good seed or breed

近代五種競技きんだいごしゅきょうぎ

the modern pentathlon

特種とくしゅ

special kind

洋種ようしゅ

Western or foreign type

薬種やくしゅ

drugs

品種改良ひんしゅかいりょう

selective breeding

耕種こうしゅ

tilling and sowing

肉用種にくようしゅ

animal bred for its meat

燃え種もえくさ

kindling

異種交配いしゅこうはい

crossbreeding

食人種しょくじんしゅ

cannibals

白人種はくじんしゅ

white race

白色人種はくしょくじんしゅ

white race

短毛種たんもうしゅ

short-haired

種概念しゅがいねん

specific concept

乙種おつしゅ

B-grade

種の起源しゅのきげん

On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin, 1859)

第三種郵便物だいさんしゅゆうびんぶつ

third-class mail

悩みの種なやみのたね

source of worry

黄色人種おうしょくじんしゅ

yellow race

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