出厂
chū chǎng · HSK 7
to leave the factory (of finished goods)
🏭📦 chū = exit + chǎng = factory — goods leaving the production line
The first character 出 means 'to go out' and 厂 is the radical for factory/cliff shelter. Together they literally say 'exit the factory,' describing finished products rolling off the line and shipping out.
出 — foot 止 emerging from enclosure 凵
出 is a pictograph showing a foot or plant stepping out of a hollow or enclosure, depicting the act of going forth. The original sense of 'coming out' or 'emerging' has remained stable since oracle bone script. It now broadly means 'to exit, go out, or produce.'
厂 — single radical 厂 (cliff)
厂 is a pictograph of an overhanging cliff or rock shelter, showing a sloping line where stone juts out over the ground. It serves as a radical in many characters relating to factories, workshops, or things found under cliffs. In modern simplified Chinese it was also borrowed to write 廠 (chǎng, 'factory').