Illustration: At a Japanese aquarium shop, a child crouches beside a shallow display tub containing several round-bodied goldfish with distinctive protruding eyes. Nearby tubs hold slender goldfish and other varieties with clearly different body shapes.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

一いっ種しゅ

isshu

a kind, a species

Example sentences

  1. イルカは哺乳類ほにゅうるいの一種いっしゅです。

    A dolphin is a kind of mammal.

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  2. この花はなはバラの一種いっしゅです。

    This flower is a kind of rose.

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  3. これはパンの一種いっしゅだ。

    This is a kind of bread.

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Kanji in 一種

  • 一oneOnイチ・イツKunひと-・ひとつ
  • 種species; kindOnシュKunたね

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