miǎn
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to give birth; to deliver a baby

Examples

Tā zài yīyuàn fēnmiǎn le yí gè jiànkāng de nánhái.
She delivered a healthy baby boy at the hospital.
Yīshēng yòng wútòng fēnmiǎn jiǎnqīng tā de tòngkǔ.
The doctor used painless delivery to ease her pain.

Tips

usage
Almost always bound in 分娩 (childbirth, delivery), a clinical word. There is a rare literary reading wǎn (gentle, complaisant), but in modern use treat as the 'give birth' character.

Components

radical
woman; female
Left-side woman radical . Childbirth is the meaning, so the woman radical anchors directly.
phonetic
miǎn
to avoid; exempt
Right side gives the exact sound miǎn. The same phonetic appears in and .

Stroke Order

miǎn