Chinese symbol for “birthplace”
出生地
chū shēng dì
birthplace
The closest CC-CEDICT match for birthplace is 出生地 (chū shēng dì), defined as: birthplace.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “birthplace”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发祥地 (發祥地) | fā xiáng dì | the birthplace (of sth good); the cradle (e.g. of art) |
| 发源地 (發源地) | fā yuán dì | place of origin; birthplace |
| 原籍 | yuán jí | ancestral home (town); birthplace |
| 摇篮 (搖籃) | yáo lán | cradle (for a baby); (fig.) cradle; birthplace (of a civilization, movement etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 出生地.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出现 (出現) | chū xiàn | to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up |
| 出来 (出來) | chū lái | to come out; to appear |
| 提出 | tí chū | to raise (an issue); to propose |
| 指出 | zhǐ chū | to indicate; to point out |
| 出版 | chū bǎn | to publish |
| 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 |
| 地区 (地區) | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “birthplace”.
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.