chǎn

give birth

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
彥 sound,remnant component

  Sound Remnant component

yàn

  

elegant

生 meaning component

  Meaning component

shēng

  

life

Evolution

產 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
產 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
產 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
產 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chǎn

give birth, bring forth, produce; to give birth; to reproduce; to produce; product; resource; estate; property

Most common words with 產
Freq.
Word
Meaning

产品

goods

产生

to arise

生产

to produce

财产

property

产业

industry

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-ŋrarʔ

sreanX

chǎn

bear (v.), produce


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 53.5800% of movies

726th most common character in movies

159th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+7522

Shuowen

“產,生也。从生,彥省聲。”


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