Zi:类

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(F​) [lèi] kind/type, variety/category/class (​类, 类​); ​类 classify; ​类 human beings; 类​ similar

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The simple-form character 类 (9 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character ​ (19 strokes), omitting the right-side full-form component ​ (9 strokes), and changing the lower-left full-form part ​ (4 strokes) to ​ (3 strokes).
    The full-form character ​, later also wr. ​𩔖⿰类​, was formerly wr. ​.
    The Shuōwén Seal form of ​ lèi ‘kind/type’ combines ​ quǎn ‘dog’ (as in ​ ‘shape’), and ​ lèi ‘similar’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. ​, cf. ​.
    Compare: ​/​ lèi ‘knot (in silk)’ (difficult to untangle), in which the component is ​ instead of ​.
    “[​] Categories: ​ rice, exemplifying the vegetable kingdom, ​ dog, the animal kingdom, and ​ head, the human world” —Karlgren(AD).
►references: Karlgren:AD227; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:5.3141.12; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:907.03; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:129.1.03; EDOC:0
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►Cantonese: leuih-
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