Meaning & readings
products, bear, give birth, yield, childbirth, native, property
Origin
The character 産 appears to show a figure giving birth or in labor, with the upper portion suggesting a person and the lower strokes representing the act of bringing forth new life. This visual connection to childbirth naturally extended to mean "bear" or "give birth," and from there developed the broader sense of "produce" or "yield" — anything that comes forth or is created. The character's form captures the physical idea of something emerging or being brought into the world, which is why it relates to both human reproduction and the production of goods or natural resources.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (産).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 100
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #161 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+07523