Chinese symbol for “provenance”
原产地
yuán chǎn dì
Traditional: 原產地
original source; place of origin; provenance
The closest CC-CEDICT match for provenance is 原产地 (yuán chǎn dì), defined as: original source; place of origin; provenance.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 原产地.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 原因 | yuán yīn | cause; origin |
| 原来 (原來) | yuán lái | original; former; originally; formerly; at first |
| 原则 (原則) | yuán zé | principle; doctrine |
| 原本 | yuán běn | originally; the original; original copy; original version |
| 原始 | yuán shǐ | first; original |
| 原理 | yuán lǐ | principle; theory |
| 生产 (生產) | shēng chǎn | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child |
| 产品 (產品) | chǎn pǐn | goods; merchandise |
| 地区 (地區) | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “provenance”.
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.