Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
plant, sow
Kun:
ま.く
On:
バンハン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2204 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 播種 【ハシュ】 sowing, seeding, planting
  • は種床 【ハシュドコ】 container for growing seedlings, seedbed, sowing bed
  • 播州 【バンシュウ】 old name for part of Hyogo prefecture
  • 播但線 【バンタンセン】 Bantan Line (Hyogo Prefecture)

Kun reading compounds

  • 蒔く 【まく】 to sow, to plant, to seed, to sow (the seeds of; e.g. conflict), to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware)

Readings

Japanese names:
はり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bo4, bo1
Korean:
pa

Spanish

  • siembra
  • propagación
  • difusión
  • sembrar
  • propagar
  • diseminar

Portuguese

French

1992 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2259 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
906 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
669 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12747 Morohashi
2273 New Nelson (John Haig)
2262 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2361 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3c12.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
5206.9 Four corner code
1-39-37 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
64ad Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
grain
Parts:
species, kind, class, variety, seed
Kun:
たね-ぐさ
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
461 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 種 【シュ】 kind, variety, (biological) species, (logical) species
  • 種子 【シュシ】 seed, pit
  • 職種 【ショクシュ】 type of occupation, occupational category
  • 業種 【ギョウシュ】 type of industry

Kun reading compounds

  • 種 【たね】 seed (e.g. of a plant), pip, kernel, stone (e.g. of a peach), progeny, offspring, issue, breed, paternal blood, lineage, sperm, semen, seed, cause, source, seed, origin, material (e.g. for an article), matter (e.g. of a story), subject (of discussion), theme, (news) copy, source (of a story), ingredient, main ingredient (of a piece of sushi), leaven, mechanism (of a magic trick, etc.), secret, trickery, 10-point card, tane, animal card
  • 種馬 【たねうま】 studhorse, stallion, breeding horse
  • 菜種 【なたね】 rapeseed, coleseed
  • 麻種 【あさたね】 hemp seed

Readings

Japanese names:
おい、 くさ、 た、 ほ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhong3, chong2, zhong4
Korean:
jong

Spanish

  • semilla
  • tipo
  • variedad
  • clase
  • noticia

Portuguese

  • espécie
  • tipo
  • classe
  • variedade
  • cepa

French

  • espèce
  • classe
  • sorte
  • variété
  • graine
423 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
531 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
503 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
435 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3295 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
232 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
783 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2124 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
228 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
228 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
564 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1442 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1560 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
823 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1128 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1695 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25174 Morohashi
1218 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4159 New Nelson (John Haig)
1679 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1810 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
417 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
618 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2272 2001 Kanji
5d9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-9 SKIP code
2291.4 Four corner code
1-28-79 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a2e Unicode hex code