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种子

zhǒng zi 3–5

seed

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 6 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
种 · 子
Syllables
2
zhǒng zi
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 5,365

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 种zhǒng9 strokesHSK 3 traditional 種seed; race, breed; to plant
  • 子zǐ3 strokesHSK 1offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 种子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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