出 (chū) in Mandarin: to exit, to come out, to produce

Translation

to exit, to come out, to produce

Word origin

出 is an early character traditionally read as a pictograph showing a foot or plant moving up and out of an enclosure or a cave mouth, depicting the act of going out. Later forms standardised the shape, but the core sense of emerging or exiting is preserved.

Origin: pictograph
Root: depicts movement out of an opening or enclosure

Stroke order

出

Examples

。

Something happened to him.

！

Come out!

？

Where is the problem?

六liù。

He goes out at six every morning.

。

He published a novel.

出 (chū) means to exit, to come out, to produce. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

出来

to come out, to emerge

出去

to go out, to exit

去

to go

开始

to begin, to start, beginning

Appears in 8 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 出.

出来chū láito come out, to emerge 出去chū qùto go out, to exit 出现chū xiànto appear, to emerge, to occur 出发chū fāto set off, to depart, to start out 做出zuò chūto make, to produce, to put forth 出生chū shēngto be born, birth 演出yǎn chūto perform, performance, show 提出tí chūto put forward, to propose, to raise

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出(chū) - to exit, to come out, to produce in Mandarin