Character

類 lèi

class, group, kind, category

球類 qiú lèi	ball sports
甲殼蟲類 jiǎ ké chóng lèi	coleoptera
甲殼類 jiǎ qiào lèi	crustacean
畜類 chù lèi	domestic animal
畫虎類犬 huà hǔ lèi quǎn	drawing a tiger like a dog (idiom); to make a fool of oneself by excessive ambition
皮質類固醇 pí zhì lèi gù chún	corticosteroid
相類 xiāng lèi	similar
示性類 shì xìng lèi	characteristic class (math.)
祖鳥類 zǔ niǎo lèi	dinosaur ancestors of birds
禽類 qín lèi	bird species; birds
種類 zhǒng lèi	kind; genus; type; category; variety; species; sort; class
穀類 gǔ lèi	cereal; grain
符類福音 fú lèi fú yīn	synoptic gospels (i.e. Matthew, Mark and Luke, with similar accounts and chronology)
第五類 dì wǔ lèi	category 5; CAT 5 (cable)
糖類 táng lèi	sugar (chemistry)
紅五類 hóng wǔ lèi	the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
聲類 shēng lèi	Shenglei, the earliest Chinese rime dictionary with 11,520 single-character entries, released in 3rd century (was not preserved to this day)
聲類系統 shēng lèi xì tǒng	phonetic system
肉類 ròu lèi	meat
菌類 jūn lèi	fungus
蕨類 jué lèi	fern; bracken; brake (botany)
藻類 zǎo lèi	algae
虛偽類真 xū wěi lèi zhēn	false but apparently real
蛾類 é lèi	moth (family)
蜘蛛類 zhī zhū lèi	arachnid

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