chǎn
give birth
Phonosemantic compound. 生 represents the meaning and 彥 represents the sound.
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-ŋrarʔ | sreanX | chǎn | bear (v.), produce |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 53.5800% of movies
726th most common character in movies
159th most common character in books
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7522 |
Shuowen | “產,生也。从生,彥省聲。” |