類 (leoi6 | lei4 lv4) : species; class; category

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類

leoi6

lei4 lv4

[1] [n] species; class; group; kind; category; race [2] similar; alike [3] good; vitue [4] a kind of wildcat [5] biased; prejudiced [6] a Chinese family name

Stroke count: 19

Level: 3

Radical: (#181)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

類 / 类

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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歸類 gwai1 leoi6 = to categorize; categorization

分類 fan1 leoi6 fen1 lei4 = to categorize; category

人類 jan4 leoi6 ren2 lei4 = humankind; mankind

之類 zi1 leoi6 zhi1 lei4 = and so on; and such

種類 zung2 leoi6 zhong3 lei4 = type; species; class; kind; sort

同類 tung4 leoi6 tong2 lei4 = same type; same species

類似 leoi6 ci5 lei4 si4 = similar, analogous

類型 leoi6 jing4 lei4 xing2 = a type; a category; a kind; a sort

主類 zyu2 leoi6 = main class

同類相食 tung4 leoi6 soeng1 sik6 = cannibal
See all 57 compounds (CantoDict reports 62 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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考古學係一門研究人類文化同歷史嘅學科粵
Archeology is a science that studies human cultures and history

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Decimal representation of this word: 類
Unicode code for this character: U+985E (off-site link)

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