Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a child holds three large bean seeds in an open palm above a planter of loose soil. Their other hand lowers one bean into a shallow hole. Beside the planter, a clear jar holds a matching bean against damp cotton, its shell split around a white root and a tiny upward shoot.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

種たね

tane

seed

Example sentences

  1. 蒔まかぬ種たねは生はえない。

    You must sow before you can reap.

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  2. 風かぜは種たねを遠とおくへ運はこぶ。

    The wind carries seeds for great distances.

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  3. 果実かじつの中なかには種たねがある。

    Fruits have seeds in them.

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Kanji in 種

  • 種species; kindOnシュKunたね

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