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Manufacture in Chinese

to manufacture · HSK 5

生产 shēng chǎn

  1. 生 shēng to give birth to
  2. 产 chǎn to produce

这家工厂生产汽车。 This factory makes cars.

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How do you say manufacture in Chinese?

Manufacture in Chinese is 生产 (shēng chǎn). You can also say 制造 (zhì zào), 制作 (zhì zuò), 制 (zhì).

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Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

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