播種

播種

1. to sow (seeds)

• 撒種／撒种 (sǎzhǒng)
• (Min Nan) 掖種／掖种, 掖子

From Middle Chinese compound 播種 (pa^H tsyowng^X, literally “to sow + seed”) or 播種 (pa^H tsyowng^H, literally “to sow + to sow”).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) は​しゅ [háꜜshù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ha̠ɕɨᵝ]

播種 (hiragana はしゅ, rōmaji hashu)

1. sowing, the spreading of seed on the ground for growing a crop
2. (medicine) dissemination (the spreading out of cells within the body, particularly cells of an invasive disease or of cancer)

• (sowing): 種蒔 (たねま)き (tanemaki)
• (dissemination): 散在 (さんざい) (sanzai), 汎発 (はんぱつ) (hanpatsu)

播種する (hiragana はしゅする, rōmaji hashu suru)

1. to sow, to spread seed on the ground for growing a crop
2. (medicine) to disseminate (to spread out within the body, particularly for cells of an invasive disease or of cancer)

Variation of hashu above, using the kan'yōon of han for the first character.

• Kan’yōyomi
  • IPA^(key): [hã̠ɰ̃ɕɨᵝ]

播種 (hiragana はんしゅ, rōmaji hanshu)

1. (medicine) dissemination (the spreading out of cells within the body, particularly cells of an invasive disease or of cancer)

Although some dictionaries[2][3] list this separate reading with a distinct sense, other dictionaries[1][4] do not list any hanshu reading, and include the dissemination sense under the hashu reading.