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种子

zhǒng zi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 種子 Measure word 颗、粒

种子 (zhǒng zi) means "seed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 种子 means

1. seed

The characters in 种子

• 种zhǒngseed; species; kind
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 该事件播下了战争的种子。
  Gāi shìjiàn bō xià le zhànzhēng de zhǒngzi.
  The incident sowed the seeds of the war.

Words starting with 种子

• 种子选手zhǒng zi xuǎn shǒuseeded player
• 种子岛Zhǒng zi dǎoTanegashima, Japanese Island off Kyushu, the Japanese space launch site
• 种子植物zhǒng zi zhí wùseed plant

Words containing 种子

• 包衣种子bāo yī zhǒng ziseed enclosed in artificial capsule

Where 种子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chóng–zhōu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhǒng zi correctly.
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