First opened Monday, October 24, 2011
産物
さんぶつ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
product, result, fruit
Sanbutsu is from the Middle Chinese compound 產物, literally “produce + thing”.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
この国の主要な産物は何ですか。
What are the main products of this country?
その展覧会は彼の想像力の産物だった。
The exhibition was a product of his imagination.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From Middle Chinese compound 產物 /产物 (srɛn^X mjut, literally “produce + thing”). Compare modern Min Nan reading sán-bu̍t, Cantonese caan² mat⁶.”
Source: Wiktionary: 産物 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.