Sinograph Addenda · Signs

kinds

Name	kinds
Reads	pǐn
Means	kinds, grades; things in their sorts
Taught in	04 · Roots, tips, and borrowed sounds

Where it comes from

Your mouth 口 three times over: many voices, many sorts — kinds, grades, things in their categories. The script’s tripling move played on a single taught part. Taught in the roots-and-tips chapter.

How to remember it

One mouth speaks; three mouths disagree — and the moment they disagree, the world has kinds.

In the wild

雲行雨施，品物流形。yún xíng yǔ shī, pǐn wù liú xíng"clouds drift, rain falls, and the world's many kinds of things take shape" — the Changes on how creation works: no maker, just weather and time sorting everything into its kind

Zhouyi, hexagram Qian. urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1a0001:001:22a · license: attribution.