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出産 (しゅっさん, shussan) Japanese meaning: childbirth | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N2 › Freq. Frequency Top 5,000 Conjugation 出産する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 出しゅっ 産さん する 出しゅっ 産さん しない Polite 出しゅっ 産さん します 出しゅっ 産さん しません Past polite 出しゅっ 産さん しました 出しゅっ 産さん しませんでした Past 出しゅっ 産さん した 出しゅっ 産さん しなかった Te-form 出しゅっ 産さん して 出しゅっ 産さん しないで Desire 出しゅっ 産さん したい 出しゅっ 産さん したくない Potential 出しゅっ 産さん できる 出しゅっ 産さん できない Passive 出しゅっ 産さん される 出しゅっ 産さん されない Causative 出しゅっ 産さん させる 出しゅっ 産さん させない Causative passive 出しゅっ 産さん させられる 出しゅっ 産さん させられない Volitional 出しゅっ 産さん しよう Polite volitional 出しゅっ 産さん しましょう Imperative 出しゅっ 産さん しろ 出しゅっ 産さん するな Conditional 出しゅっ 産さん すれば 出しゅっ 産さん しなければ Tara conditional 出しゅっ 産さん したら 出しゅっ 産さん しなかったら
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女おんな
の
子こ
を
出しゅっ
産さん
し
た
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My older sister gave birth to a baby girl last month.
She plans to give birth at a hospital near her parents' home.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 を 出しゅっ 産さん する to give birth to (a baby)
She gave birth to a girl last month.
〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 で 出しゅっ 産さん する to give birth at (a place)
She chose to give birth at home.
無む 事じ に 出しゅっ 産さん する to give birth safely, without complications
I'm glad both mother and baby came through the birth safely.
帝てい 王おう 切せっ 開かい で 出しゅっ 産さん する to give birth by cesarean section
She gave birth by cesarean section.
Kanji 産 products, bear, give birth Transitive / intransitive 出産 can be used both intransitively, focusing on the act of giving birth (病院で出産する, "to give birth at a hospital"), and transitively, with the baby as the direct object (子どもを出産する, "to give birth to a child").
Related words· 6 お産 is a softer, everyday word for childbirth, while 出産 is the more neutral, standard term used in formal and administrative contexts.
分娩 is the clinical, medical term for delivery used by doctors and in hospital settings, whereas 出産 is the general everyday word for childbirth.
出産 is the formal, explicit noun for childbirth or delivery, while 生み is shorter and can extend more naturally to figurative creation.
出産する is a formal, clinical word for giving birth, while 産む is the everyday verb used in daily conversation.
Show 2 more 出産 focuses on the act of giving birth (usually from the mother's side), while 出生 refers to the fact of the child being born, as recorded officially.
出産 is the standard noun for the event of childbirth, whereas 産 alone rarely stands by itself in this sense outside お産.
Don't confuse with 生産 means the production of goods and is the normal modern word for manufacturing, while 出産 primarily means childbirth and only rarely refers to producing goods.
出産 focuses on the mother's act of giving birth, while 誕生 refers to the birth event from the child's or new thing's perspective.
産出 (yield/output of resources) and 出産 (childbirth) use the same two kanji in reverse order but have completely unrelated meanings.
Word family· 20 postnatal; postpartum; after childbirth
number of births; birth count
birthrate
surrogate birth; surrogacy
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound of 出, associated with coming out or bringing forth, and 産, associated with birth and production. This matches both the common childbirth meaning and the rare goods-production meaning.
産卵 is used for animals that lay eggs, while 出産 refers specifically to human childbirth, so the two are never interchangeable despite sharing the kanji 産.
Show 5 more maternity leave after childbirth
maternity allowance; childbirth allowance
birth celebration; celebration of a birth · baby gift; gift for a new baby; push present
multiple birth
home birth; giving birth at home; home delivery
