| 物种起源 |
Wù zhǒng Qǐ yuán |
Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" |
| 物 |
wù |
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself |
| 物种 |
wù zhǒng |
species |
| 种 |
zhǒng |
seed / species / kind / type / classifier for types, kinds, sorts |
| 种 |
zhòng |
to plant / to grow / to cultivate |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |
| 起源 |
qǐ yuán |
origin / to originate / to come from |
| 源 |
yuán |
root / source / origin |