饲
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to raise; to rear; to feed
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 食 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 飼
- Common rank
- #2,601
- Unicode
- U+9972
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
rear · Heisig RSH #2819
食 food + 司 take charge of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 饲
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 动物性饲料 | feed made of animal products | |
| 饲养者 | feeder | |
| 饲养场 | farm; feed lot; dry lot | |
| 饲养业 | stock farming; animal husbandry | |
| 饲养员 | zookeeper; stockman; breeder (of livestock, dogs or poultry etc) | |
| 鼻饲法 | nasal feeding | |
| 饲主 | pet owner | |
| 草饲 | grass-fed | |
| 饲草 | forage grass | |
| 饲料 | feed; fodder | |
| 饲养 | to raise; to rear | |
| 饲育 | to rear (an animal) | |
| 谷饲 | grain-fed | |
| 鼻饲 | nasal feeding | |
| 饲槽 | feeding trough | |
| 饲喂 | to feed (an animal) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 司 — compare how they read.