Chinese symbol for “offshoot”
衍生物
yǎn shēng wù
derivative; offshoot
The closest CC-CEDICT match for offshoot is 衍生物 (yǎn shēng wù), defined as: derivative; offshoot.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 衍生物.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 衍生 | yǎn shēng | to give rise to; to derive |
| 繁衍 | fán yǎn | to multiply; to reproduce |
| 敷衍 | fū yǎn | to elaborate (on a theme); to expound (the classics) |
| 衍射 | yǎn shè | (physics) to diffract |
| 敷衍了事 | fū yǎn liǎo shì | (idiom) to do things half-heartedly; to merely go through the motions |
| 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 |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “offshoot”.
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.