Chinese symbol for “produce”
生产
shēng chǎn
Traditional: 生產
to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
The closest CC-CEDICT match for produce is 生产 (shēng chǎn), defined as: to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “produce”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 结 (結) | jiē | (of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds); Taiwan pr. [jie2] |
| 做 | zuò | to make; to produce; to write; to compose |
| 生 | shēng | to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur |
| 出产 (出產) | chū chǎn | to produce (by natural growth, or by manufacture, mining etc); to yield |
| 产出 (產出) | chǎn chū | to produce (graduates, breast milk, toxic waste, creative ideas etc); output |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 生产.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 产生 (產生) | chǎn shēng | 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 |
| 先生 | xiān sheng | teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) |
| 产品 (產品) | chǎn pǐn | goods; merchandise |
| 产业 (產業) | chǎn yè | industry; estate |
| 财产 (財產) | cái chǎn | property; assets |
See also: Japanese symbol for “produce”.
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.