漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
養: foster, bring up
Also: rear, develop, nurture
JLPT N115 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
食 carries the meaning · 羊 gives the sound
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ヨウyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 栄養えいようnutrition, nourishment
- 教養きょうようsophistication, education
- 養子ようしadopted child
- 養育するよういくするbring up, raise
- 休養するきゅうようするrest [v.i.]
- 培養するばいようするcultivate
やしなうyashinau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 養うやしなうrear, cultivate
Also read リョウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)羊 sheep (sound) + 食 to feed (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 養 (rev. 92163374), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Sheikh/sheep + food (食). To provide "food" and care for a "sheep" or a child, representing the act of "nurturing" or "fostering."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
養 takes the 羊 family's reading, ヨウ (you).
In ChineseSimplified 养 · traditional, as in Japanese · yǎng
Japan keeps the traditional form 養; mainland China simplifies it to 养.
- Simplified
- 养 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 養 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yǎng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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