种
種zhòng
#57 most
frequent character
to plant, to grow, to cultivate
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
种 has 禾 grain as the meaning part and 中 zhōng as the sound part. Its first sense was a grain sown early and reaped late. From that came 'seed', 'type', 'lineage', and 'confidence'. Read zhòng, it means 'to plant'.
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