Onyomi: シュ · Kunyomi: -ぐさ, たね · Meanings: class, kind, seed, species, variety
Kanji for class, kind, seed, species, variety
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種 is made from 禾, meaning “grain” or “cereal plant,” on the left, and 重, meaning “heavy” or “many,” on the right. The image is of a large number of grains, representing seeds that carry the potential for new growth. From this, 種 came to mean seed, type, or kind — the source from which plants or ideas grow.
種 shows many grains, representing seeds and the source of growth.
Picture a handful of seeds (禾) so full and heavy (重) that they’re ready to grow. Those seeds are 種.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 種 | たね | seed (e.g. of a plant), pip, kernel, stone (e.g. of a peach) | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 種 | しゅ | kind, variety | JLPT-N1 Noun, Noun, used as a suffix |
| 種 | くさ | cause, seed, origin | Noun, Noun, used as a suffix |
| 種類 | しゅるい | variety, kind, type, category | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 種々 | しゅじゅ | various, a variety of, all kinds of, many, diverse | common JLPT-N1 Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Adverb (fukushi), Noun |
| 種子 | しゅし | seed, pit | common Noun |
| 素性 | すじょう | birth, lineage, parentage, origin | Noun |
| 種目 | しゅもく | item, event | common Noun |
| 種族 | しゅぞく | race, tribe, ethnic group | common Noun |
| 種まき | たねまき | sowing seeds, planting seeds, scattering seeds | Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |