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title: Taxonomy - GraphQL Admin
description: The Taxonomy resource lets you access the categories, attributes and values of a taxonomy tree.
api_version: 2025-10
api_name: admin
type: object
api_type: graphql
source_url:
  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/taxonomy
  md: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/taxonomy.md
---

# Taxonomy

object

The Taxonomy resource lets you access the categories, attributes and values of a taxonomy tree.

## Fields

* categories

  [Taxonomy​Category​Connection!](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/connections/TaxonomyCategoryConnection)

  non-null

  Returns the categories of the product taxonomy based on the arguments provided. If a `search` argument is provided, then all categories that match the search query globally are returned. If a `children_of` argument is provided, then all children of the specified category are returned. If a `siblings_of` argument is provided, then all siblings of the specified category are returned. If a `decendents_of` argument is provided, then all descendents of the specified category are returned. If no arguments are provided, then all the top-level categories of the taxonomy are returned.

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## Map

No referencing types

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## Queries

* [taxonomy](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/taxonomy)

  query

  The Taxonomy resource lets you access the categories, attributes and values of the loaded taxonomy tree.

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## \<?>Taxonomy Queries

### Queried by

* \<?>[taxonomy](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/taxonomy)