Taxonomy of meanings for 產:　　

  • 產 chǎn (OC: sŋreenʔ MC: ʃɯæn) 所簡切 上 廣韻：【生也又大籥似笛三孔而短又姓何氏姓苑云彭城人所簡切十 】
    • ARISE
      • vibe produced> arise 亂之所以產
    • ASSET
      • nmproperty, means of production; livelihood
    • BIRTH
      • vadNbelonging to the stage of birth, childbirth- 產褥
      • viactgive birth; produce
      • viprocessbe born 陳良楚產也 [NB: the distinction with 屈產之乘 is unclear: does 產 really involve breading?]
      • vt+N{PLACE}middle voicebe born in N, hail from N
      • vtoNbe delivered of, give birth to
    • PRODUCE
      • nobject(one's own) product; product (of a place)
      • nabactproduction of goods
      • vt+prep+Npassivebe produced from
      • vtoNcause to arise; produce
    • REAR
      • nobjectwhat is reared, breed 其產 "the local breed"
      • nab.tactthe rearing of N, the breeding of N
      • vadNreared, bred (not wild)
      • vt{PASS}post-N{PLACE}.adNpassivebe made to bud forth; be reared, be bred; be produced 屈產之乘 "teams of horses bred in Qū"
    • WORK
      • nabactproductive effort; productive activities; profession; line of profesional activity 經產，末產， 產業
    • LIVE
      • THING
        • RIVERS
          • SURNAMES

            Additional information about 產

            說文解字:

              Criteria
            • WORK

              1. The current general term for work is gōng 工 (ant. xiū 休 "rest"), but the word refers specifically to skilled work.

              2. Shì 事 (ant. xián 閒 "be at leisure") refers primarily to an official or regular working effort made on behalf of and in the service of an employer or a ruler.

              3. Zuò 作 (ant. xí 息 "take a rest from work") refers to manual work.

              4. Chǎn 產 refers to the pursuance of a traditional family trade.

              5. Yè 業 refers to the pursuance of one's own professional career or one's career as a skilled artisan, farmer etc..

              6. Wù 務 refers to work imposed on one because of one's public employment.

              7. Shēng 生 can occasionally come to refer to something like one's daily work.

              8. Zhì 治 is mostly used verbally and refers to putting a coherent organised effort into something or work at something.

              9. Gān 干 is only used verbally and refers to the concerted effort or working towards an end.

            • ASSET

              [ELEVATED/INFORMAL]

              [LASTING/TEMPORARY]

              [LITERAL/TRANSFERRED]

              1. Yè 業 refers to typically permanent assets of significant proportions.

              [ELEVATED?], [LASTING]

              2. Chǎn 產 refers to considerable but not necessarily inalienable assets, typically not viewed as entirely inherited.

              [LITERAL]

            • BIRTH

              [BASIC/MARGINAL]

              [FACT/PROCESS]

              [+FIG/LITERAL]

              [GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

              1. Shēng 生 (ant. sǐ 死 "die") is a colourless general word for the fact of being delivered of offspring or for engendering offspring, and the word also has many derived and related meanings.

              [FACT], [+FIG], [GENERAL]; [[COMMON+]]

              2. Chǎn 產 can focus on the physical process of birth alone, but the word can connote the act of rearing or even breeding. See REAR.

              [LITERAL], [PROCESS]; [[COMMON]]

              3. Zì 字 is a rare very archaic word referring to the production of offspring.

              [ARCHAIC], [LITERAL]; [[RARE]]

              4. Yù 育 is a rare fairly archaic word for giving birth to and rearing offspring.

              [ARCHAIC], [LITERAL], [PROCESS]

              5. Rǔ 乳 viewS the act of giving birth as immediately preceding and linked to the feeding of what one has given birth to.

              [LITERAL], [MARGINAL], [PROCESS]; [[RARE]]

              4. Sū 穌 "be born again" belongs to the realm of religious discourse.

              [SPECIFIC]; [[RARE]]

            • GROW

              1. The current general term for growth is zhǎng 長, and for having as a habitat it is shēng 生.

              2. Chéng 成 refers specifically to growing to a mature state and thus to grow into something grown-up.

              3. Bāo 苞 refers to plants growing in clusters.

              4. Shú 熟 refers to a plant growing to maturity and the ripe stage where it may be harvested.

              NB: Chǎn 產 refers specifically to a plant or an animal being a product of a certain area and thus growing in that area. This word is marginal in the group.

            • PRODUCE

              1. The most common word for producing something is wéi 為.

              2. Chéng 成 focusses on the completion of the process and its success.

              3. Zhì 治 focusses on the orderliness of the result.

              4. Chǎn 產 focusses on the act of production as typically informed by professionalism.

              5. Zào 造 refers to the production of something like a carriage through craftsmanship.

              6. Zhì 制 refers primarily to the production of clothes, but the word later came to refer to all manner of production of artifacts.

              Word relations
            • Object: (ASSET)治/GOVERN The general word for governing, administering or ordering things is zhì 治, old reading chí.
            • Contrast: (ARISE)出/ARISE Chū 出 (NB: rù 入cannot be used as an antonym for this meaning.) refers to something that pre-exists emerging or moving from an initial state of hiddenness or non-obviousness to a state of manifest visibility (in analogy with the basic meaning of the word "to come out"). [SPECIFIC]
            • Contrast: (ARISE)生/ARISE Shēng 生 (ant. miè 滅 "be extinguished (as dinosaurs)") refers to the coming into existence of something which did not previously exist. [PERFECTIVE]
            • Assoc: (WORK)業/WORK Yè 業refers to the pursuance of one's own professional career or one's career as a skilled artisan, farmer etc..