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種類

しゅるい

kind, species

Mnemonic

Seeds 種 sorted into groups by what they resemble 類. Surely those two are not the same one, you say, and roses come in a great many: しゅるい.

Built from

seed, kind
禾 grain + 重 heavy
kind, sort
頁 a head on the right with rice and a dog beside it. Things gathered into groups by what they resemble.

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