黑种

黑種

hēizhǒng

noun #33,154

Meanings

1 the Negroid race (older anthropological classification, now dated)
2 Black peoples (in older Chinese geography/biology textbooks)

Characters

kind; race; species; seed

Examples

HSK 4

旧的人类学把世界人种分为黄种、白种和黑种。

Jiù de rénlèixué bǎ shìjiè rénzhǒng fēnwéi huángzhǒng, báizhǒng hé hēizhǒng.

Older anthropology divided the world's peoples into the Yellow, White, and Black races.

HSK 7-9

现代生物学已经不再使用'黑种'这种分类。

Xiàndài shēngwùxué yǐjīng bùzài shǐyòng ' hēizhǒng ' zhèzhǒng fēnlèi.

Modern biology no longer uses the classification "Negroid race".

Tips

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黑种 (and the parallel terms 黄种, 白种) come from the late-19th/early-20th-century three-race typology that mainstream genetics has long since rejected. The phrase still appears in older Chinese textbooks and 1980s-90s reference works, but in current writing 黑人 (black people) is neutral, while 黑种人 sounds dated. Treat 黑种 as a historical/technical term, not everyday vocabulary.

Stroke Order

黑 hēi

种 zhǒng