U+7A2E "種" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

種

U+7A2E "種" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideograph that carries the core meaning of "seed," "species," or "kind," and it is composed of the radical for grain or rice (禾) combined with a phonetic component. This character is widely used in East Asian languages to denote biological classification, as in the word for "species" in scientific contexts, as well as more abstract concepts like "type" or "variety," such as when referring to different kinds of people or things. In Japanese, it appears in terms like "shu" for a type of plant or animal, while in Chinese it forms part of common compounds like "zhǒngzi" for seed. Its historical development reflects an agricultural origin, emphasizing the cultivation and categorization of crops, and it remains a foundational character in both written and digital communication across multiple languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7A2E
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	種
HTML Hex Encoding	種
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA8 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7A2E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007A2E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7a2e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	BAD8
kCCCII	214F3D
kCNS1986	1-6A21
kCNS1992	1-6A21
kCangjie	HDHJG
kCantonese	zung2
kCihaiT	993.607
kCowles	391 397
kDaeJaweon	1281.330
kDefinition	seed; race; offspring; to plant
kEACC	214F3D
kFanqie	之隴之用
kFenn	27B
kFennIndex	109.07 110.03
kFourCornerCode	2291.4
kGB1	5454
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	1188d
kHangul	종:0E
kHanYu	42617.170
kHanyuPinlu	zhǒng(3481) zhòng(285)
kHanyuPinyin	42617.170:chóng,zhǒng,zhòng
kHKGlyph	2916
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1281.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42617.170
kIRGKangXi	0856.160
kIRG_GSource	G1-5656
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BAD8
kIRG_JSource	J0-3C6F
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E9D1
kIRG_KSource	K0-707A
kIRG_TSource	T1-6A21
kIRG_VSource	V1-6140
kJapanese	シュチョウショウジュたねうえる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	TANE UERU
kJapaneseOn	SHU
kJis0	2879
kKangXi	0856.160
kKorean	CONG
kLau	1635 1636
kMandarin	zhǒng
kMatthews	1511
kMeyerWempe	421 425
kMojiJoho	MJ019114
kMorohashi	25174
kNelson	3295
kPhonetic	332
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2331+115.5.9
kRSUnicode	115.9
kSBGY	237.37 345.16
kSimplifiedVariant	"种" U+79CD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	487.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhǒng粵zung2 zhòng粵zung3
kTaiwanTelegraph	4467
kTang	*jiòng jiǒng
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	chõng
kXerox	241:160
kXHC1983	1500.031:zhǒng 1501.061:zhòng