养
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to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets); to support; to give birth
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 八 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 養
- Common rank
- #471
- Unicode
- U+517B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 养
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自养生物 | (biology) autotroph | |
| 养生之道 | the way of maintaining good health | |
| 养生法 | regime (diet) | |
| 养老金 | pension | |
| 养家活口 | to support one's family (idiom) | |
| 养兵千日，用在一时 | see 養兵千日，用兵一時|养兵千日，用兵一时[yang3 bing1 qian1 ri4 , yong4 bing1 yi1 shi2] | |
| 异养生物 | (biology) heterotroph | |
| 养兵千日，用兵一时 | lit. Train an army for a thousand days to use it for an hour. (idiom); fig. extensive prep… | |
| 养大 | to raise (a child or animal) | |
| 养子 | adopted son; foster son | |
| 养乐多 | Yakult (Japanese brand of fermented milk drink) | |
| 生养 | to bring up (children); to raise; to bear | |
| 养生 | to maintain good health; to raise a child or animal; curing (of concrete etc) | |
| 养地 | to maintain the land (with rotation of crops or fertilizer) | |
| 养儿防老 | (of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age | |
| 自养 | self-sustaining; economically independent (of state aid, foreign subsidy etc) | |
| 家养 | domestic (animals); home reared | |
| 养家 | to support a family; to raise a family | |
| 养性 | mental or spiritual cultivation | |
| 养花 | growing flowers |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 羊 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound part | sheep, goat | |
| 洋 | sea, ocean; western, foreign | |
| 样 | form, pattern, shape, style | |
| 氧 | oxygen | |
| 鲜 | fresh; delicious; attractive | |
| 祥 | happiness, good fortune; auspicious | |
| 痒 | to itch; to tickle | |
| 详 | complete, detailed, thorough | |
| 翔 | to soar, to hover, to glide | |
| 羌 | Qiang nationality; surname | |
| 恙 | illness, sickness; indisposition | |
| 羟 | hydroxide | |
| 佯 | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful | |
| 徉 | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate | |
| 烊 | to smelt; to close for the night | |
| 庠 | village school; teach | |
| 羰 | carbonyl group | |
| 蛘 | rice weevil |