Chinese symbol for “arise”
产生
chǎn shēng
Traditional: 產生
to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for arise is 产生 (chǎn shēng), defined as: to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “arise”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出现 (出現) | chū xiàn | to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up |
| 出 | chū | to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur |
| 出来 (出來) | chū lái | to come out; to appear |
| 生 | shēng | to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur |
| 雄起 | xióng qǐ | (cry of encouragement); to arise |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 产生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生产 (生產) | shēng chǎn | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child |
| 产品 (產品) | chǎn pǐn | goods; merchandise |
| 产业 (產業) | chǎn yè | industry; estate |
| 财产 (財產) | cái chǎn | property; assets |
| 资产 (資產) | zī chǎn | property; assets |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
See also: Japanese symbol for “arise”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.