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品种

pǐn zhǒng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 品種 Measure word 个

品种 (pǐn zhǒng) means "breed; variety; type". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 品种 means

1. breed
2. variety

The characters in 品种

• 品pǐn(bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type…
• 种zhǒngseed; species; kind

Example sentences

• 这品种的蝴蝶现在已经绝种了。
  Zhè pǐnzhǒng de húdié xiànzài yǐjīng juézhǒng le.
  Butterflies of this species are now extinct.
• 中国幅员辽阔,因而茶的品种繁多。
  China's territory is vast, thus the types of tea vary.
• 他们想栽培新品种的米来增加粮食生产。
  Tāmen xiǎng zāipéi xīn pǐnzhǒng de mǐ lái zēngjiā liángshi shēngchǎn.
  They want to increase food production by growing new kinds of rice.

Words containing 品种

• 矮杆品种ǎi gǎn pǐn zhǒngshort-stalked variety; short straw variety

Where 品种 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Media, Frequency & Categories (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pǐn zhǒng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.