出

Core logic: movement from an interior to an exterior crossing a boundary (physical or abstract).

• Physical Motion: To exit, leave, or emerge into view. Includes the act of birth/delivery.
• Issuance: Sending out from a center; includes administrative decrees and financial expenditure (often paired as a binary with 入).
• Production: The transition from latent to manifest, such as natural yield (crops or minerals) or intellectual expression (moving an idea from mind to medium).
• Prominence: Standing out from a background or crowd.

• Verb: Operates as both a primary action (intransitive) and a causative/transitive (to issue or send).
• Resultative Complement: Attaches to another verb to indicate the outcome of an action is an exit or breakthrough.
• Noun: In later classical periods, may refer to the "exit" or "way out."

• vs. 入 (rù): Direct antonym; often used in pairs to identify cycles of exchange, breathing, or movement.
• vs. 發 (fā): Both can mean "send," but 出 emphasizes the crossing of a threshold, while 發 emphasizes the energy of launch, emission, or expansion.

• Variants: U+5C80 and U+9F63 are paleographic variants that generally do not signal a shift in meaning.