产 (chǎn): to give birth, to reproduce, to produce
产 (chǎn) is a Chinese character meaning “to give birth.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 亠 (structural), 丷 (structural) and 厂 (phonetic). It ranks #159 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 产 is a compound character. Its radical form 亠 (lid) appears in many related characters such as 京 (jīng, capital city of a country), 交 (jiāo, to hand over), 亮 (liàng, bright).
Definitions
- to give birth
- to reproduce
- to produce
Etymology & Origin
pictophoneticThis character is a compound form.
Decomposition: ⿳亠丷厂 (layout: top-middle-bottom)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 产
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 产生verb | chǎn shēng | to arise | 4 |
| 财产noun | cái chǎn | property | 6 |
| 产品noun | chǎn pǐn | goods | 5 |
| 破产verb | pò chǎn | to go bankrupt | 6 |
| 生产verb | shēng chǎn | to produce | 5 |
| 遗产noun | yí chǎn | heritage | 6 |
| 资产noun | zī chǎn | property | 6 |
| 产业noun | chǎn yè | industry | 5 |
| 产量noun | chǎn liàng | output | 5 |
| 特产noun | tè chǎn | special local product | 5 |
| 产出verb | chǎn chū | to produce (graduates, breast milk, toxic waste, creative ideas etc) | 6 |
| 农产品noun | nóng chǎn pǐn | agricultural produce | 6 |
| 产地noun | chǎn dì | source (of a product) | 6 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 房产 | fáng chǎn | real estate |
| 地产 | dì chǎn | real estate |
| 流产 | liú chǎn | to have a miscarriage |
| 产物 | chǎn wù | product |
| 产权 | chǎn quán | property right |
| 出产 | chū chǎn | to produce (by natural growth, or by manufacture, mining etc) |
| 产前 | chǎn qián | prenatal |
| 家产 | jiā chǎn | family property |
| 产假 | chǎn jià | maternity leave |
| 产房 | chǎn fáng | delivery room (in hospital) |
| 难产 | nán chǎn | difficult birth |
| 助产 | zhù chǎn | to help a mother give birth |
| 产卵 | chǎn luǎn | to lay eggs |
| 产后 | chǎn hòu | postnatal |
| 早产 | zǎo chǎn | to have a premature birth |
产 appears in 100 compound words: 33 as the first character, 66 as the last, and 1 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 产 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (12)
to exhaust all of a family's financial resources; to break the bank; to bring a family to ruin
Example Sentences
了解产字的来源，有助于理解中国文化。
le xiè chǎn zì de lái yuán , yǒu zhù yú lǐ xiè zhōng guó wén huā .
Understanding the origin of the character "产" helps to comprehend Chinese culture.
扩产也来不及!全球记忆体荒将成AI竞争关键瓶...
kuò chǎn yě lái bù jí ! quán qiú jì yì tǐ huāng jiāng chéng A I jìng zhēng guān jiàn píng . . .
It's too late to expand production! The global memory shortage will become a key bottle in AI competition...
中国资产折价40-50%也无法套现?全球10大私...
zhōng guó zī chǎn zhé jià 4 0 5 0 yě wú fǎ tào xiàn ? quán qiú 1 0 dà sī . . .
China's assets are discounted by 40-50% and cannot be cashed out? The world's top 10 private...
跨越八百里守护 湘雅医院助超早产三胞胎平安回家团圆
kuà yuè bā bǎi lǐ shǒu hù 湘 yǎ yī yuàn zhù chāo zǎo chǎn sān bāo tāi píng ān huí jiā tuán yuán
Spanning 800 miles to protect Xiangya Hospital to help the ultra-premature triplets return home safely and reunite
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2 0 2 6 祛 bān chǎn pǐn shén má hǎo ? shí dà 祛 bān chǎn pǐn pái míng shēn bā : 祛 bān . .
What are the best freckle removal products in 2026? Top 10 freckle removal product rankings: freckle removal:
南通通州:新年“开机”赶订单 新产能冲刺新目标
nán tōng tōng zhōu : xīn nián kāi jī gǎn dìng dān xīn chǎn néng chōng cì xīn mù biāo
Nantong Tongzhou: New Year's "start-up" to catch up with orders New production capacity sprint to new goals
全世界无产者，联合起来！
Quánshìjiè wúchǎnzhě, liánhé qǐlai!
Workers of the world, unite!
由于产量过剩，卷心菜的价格下降了。
Yóuyú chǎnliàng guòshèng, juǎnxīncài de jiàgé xiàjiàng le.
The price of cabbage fell because of overproduction.
人类是环境的产物。
Rénlèi shì huánjìng de chǎnwù.
Man is a creature of circumstances.
他将会继承大笔的遗产。
Tā jiāng huì jìchéng dà bǐ de yíchǎn.
He will come into a large fortune.
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