Seed in Chinese
seed · HSK 5
种子
- 种 kind
- 子 son
Counted with 颗: 一颗种子
我在花盆里放了几粒种子。 I put a few seeds in the flowerpot.
Other ways to say seed
More words with 种 or 子
How do you say seed in Chinese?
Seed in Chinese is 种子 (zhǒng zi). You can also say 播种 (bō zhǒng), 米 (mǐ), 种 (zhǒng), 子 (zǐ).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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