Chinese symbol for “reproduce”
生殖
shēng zhí
to reproduce; to flourish
The closest CC-CEDICT match for reproduce is 生殖 (shēng zhí), defined as: to reproduce; to flourish.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “reproduce”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 再生产 (再生產) | zài shēng chǎn | to reproduce; reproduction |
| 产 (產) | chǎn | to give birth; to reproduce |
| 复制 (複製) | fù zhì | to duplicate; to make a copy of |
| 繁殖 | fán zhí | to breed; to reproduce |
| 传种 (傳種) | chuán zhǒng | to reproduce; to propagate |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 生殖.
| 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 |
| 生产 (生產) | shēng chǎn | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child |
| 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.) |
| 养殖 (養殖) | yǎng zhí | to raise; to breed (animals etc) |
| 殖民 | zhí mín | colony; colonial |
See also: Japanese symbol for “reproduce”.
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.