chǎn
give birth
Simplified form of 產. Phonosemantic compound. 生 represents the meaning and 彥 represents the sound. The traditional component 生 was removed for simplification.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-ŋrarʔ | sreanX | chǎn | bear (v.), produce |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 53.5800% of movies
726th most common character in movies
159th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+4EA7 |
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