生成|せいせいseisei[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbcreation; generation; formation; derivation
   AとBを反応はんのうさせるとCが生成せいせいされます。↗

   C is formed by reacting A with B.

• Synonym作り出すつくりだすNeutralMaking or creating something, highlighting the act of producing it; 「生成」 also covers natural formation and change of state.
• Synonym生ずるしょうずるWrittenAn alternative form of 「生じる」 for arising and being produced; 「生成」 can also serve as a noun for a forming process.
• Synonym生み出すうみだすNeutralBringing forth or creating something new, and also giving birth; 「生成」 stresses the process of arising, forming or changing state.
• Synonym作るつくるNeutralThe everyday verb for making things; 「生成」 is more written in tone, meaning arising or forming, and takes 「する」.
• Synonym創出そうしゅつWrittenWritten word for creating something new, as in 「雇用創出」; 「生成」 can also describe natural formation or a change of state.
• Synonym創生そうせいWrittenWritten word for creating or bringing to birth, as in 「地方創生」; 「生成」 also covers a thing changing from one state into another.
• Synonym産生さんせいWrittenWritten word for cells synthesizing substances and for production in general; 「生成」 can also describe a change from one state to another.
• Related産出さんしゅつWrittenWritten word for producing or yielding minerals and products; 「生成」 is about new things arising or forming, mostly in science and computing.
• Related生むうむNeutralEveryday verb for giving birth and producing; 「生成」 takes 「する」 to mean forming and is not normally used for having children.
• Related生みうみNeutralNoun for birth and creation, as in 「生みの親」; 「生成」 with 「する」 expresses a process of arising or forming.
• Related創造そうぞうNeutralCreating something new, with a nuance of human ingenuity or God creating all things; 「生成」 leans toward natural or program-driven generation.
• Related生じるしょうじるNeutralVerb for arising, occurring and also causing; 「生成」 works as a noun and can express a change of state.
• Related形作るかたちづくるNeutralShaping or making up the form of a whole; more concerned than 「生成」 with what shape or structure results.
• Related生産せいさんNeutralProducing goods and services for daily life; 「生成」 is not tied to economic activity and can describe the forming of matter or culture.
• Related製造せいぞうNeutralProcessing raw materials into products; 「生成」 is broader, covering the arising of substances and the forming of nations or cultures.
• Related形成けいせいNeutralTaking on a certain form, as in 「人格形成」 or 「膜を形成する」; 「生成」 stresses the process by which things come into being.
• Related作成さくせいNeutralDrawing up documents, plans and the like, with the focus on the act of preparing them; 「生成」 is broader and also fits files a program produces.
• RelatedプロダクションNeutralLoanword that mostly means a film studio or talent agency; unrelated to the sense of generation in 「生成」.
• Related作り上げるつくりあげるNeutralFinishing or building something up, and also fabricating it; 「生成」 means arising or changing state, with no sense of completion or fabrication.
• Related制作せいさくNeutralProducing works of art, film and the like, with the focus on the act of making; 「生成」 more broadly covers things arising or forming.
• Related創作そうさくNeutralCreating works from one's own conception, stressing originality, as in 「創作活動」; 「生成」 focuses on the process, and works produced by a program can also be said to 「生成」する.
• RelatedクリエイションNeutralLoanword for the act of creation and also for created works; 「生成」 focuses on the process by which things arise or take form.
• RelatedクリエートNeutralLoanword for creating; everyday speech uses 「作る」, while 「生成」 suggests objective generation.
• Related創案そうあんWrittenWritten word for thinking up a new idea or scheme; 「生成」 need not involve devising and can describe natural formation.
• Related創製そうせいWrittenWritten word for making something for the first time, as in 「新薬の創製」; 「生成」 is not limited to firsts and covers natural generation.
• Related醸すかもすWrittenBrewing, and figuratively stirring up an atmosphere, as in 「物議を醸す」; 「生成」 is generation in a general sense.
• Related産するさんするWrittenWritten word for a place yielding something or something being produced there; 「生成」 concerns arising and forming itself, not the source.
• Antonym消滅しょうめつNeutralAntonym: the vanishing or perishing of what exists; opposite to 「生成」 in the coming-into-being versus ceasing-to-be sense.
• Antonym破壊はかいNeutralAntonym: destroying existing things or structures; it runs counter to 「生成」's building-up direction but is not the opposite of every generative process.
• Antonym分解ぶんかいNeutralAntonym: taking a whole apart or a compound splitting into substances; the opposite of 「合成」 in chemistry, and of 「生成」 only in the forming-versus-breaking-down sense.

Use 「生成」 for things arising, taking form or changing from one state to another, especially in science and computing. For everyday making choose 「作る」; for documents and plans 「作成」; for manufactured goods 「製造」; for original creation 「創造」; and for artistic or literary creation 「創作」.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 物ものが生しょうじること。ものを作り出つくりだすこと。
2. ある状態じょうたいの事物じぶつが別べつの状態じょうたいへと変化へんかすること。転化てんか。