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Kanji for Seed
The kanji for “seed” is 種, read shu and written in 14 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
種
seed
A seed holding a whole future inside it.
14 strokes On reading シュ (shu) Kun reading たね、ぐさ (tane, gusa) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: species, kind, class, variety, seed
Readings used for names on Nazuke: shu, tane
In Japan it appears in about 105 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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