养
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to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets); to support; to give birth
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Dict coverage rank #471 U+517B
How 养 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
儿 (semantic, “child”) + 羊 (phonetic, yáng)
How to remember it
raise · Heisig RSH #537
wool + 介 introduce
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 羊
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 羊 (yáng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound component | yáng | sheep, goat |
| 洋 | yáng | sea, ocean; western, foreign |
| 样 | yàng | form, pattern, shape, style |
| 氧 | yǎng | oxygen |
| 鲜 | xiān | fresh; delicious; attractive |
| 祥 | xiáng | happiness, good fortune; auspicious |
| 痒 | yǎng | to itch; to tickle |
| 详 | xiáng | complete, detailed, thorough |
| 翔 | xiáng | to soar, to hover, to glide |
| 羌 | qiāng | Qiang nationality; surname |
| 恙 | yàng | illness, sickness; indisposition |
| 羟 | qiǎng | hydroxide |
| 佯 | yáng | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful |
| 徉 | yáng | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate |
| 烊 | yáng | to smelt; to close for the night |
| 庠 | xiáng | village school; teach |
| 羰 | tāng | carbonyl group |
| 蛘 | yáng | rice weevil |
Words containing 养
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自养生物 | zì yǎng shēng wù | (biology) autotroph |
| 养生之道 | yǎng shēng zhī dào | the way of maintaining good health |
| 养生法 | yǎng shēng fǎ | regime (diet) |
| 养老金 | yǎng lǎo jīn | pension |
| 养家活口 | yǎng jiā huó kǒu | to support one's family (idiom) |
| 养兵千日，用在一时 | yǎng bīng qiān rì , yòng zài yī shí | 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 | yì yǎng shēng wù | (biology) heterotroph |
| 养兵千日，用兵一时 | yǎng bīng qiān rì , yòng bīng yī shí | lit. Train an army for a thousand days to use it for an hour. (idiom); fig. extensive prep… |
| 养大 | yǎng dà | to raise (a child or animal) |
| 养子 | yǎng zǐ | adopted son; foster son |
| 养乐多 | Yǎng lè duō | Yakult (Japanese brand of fermented milk drink) |
| 生养 | shēng yǎng | to bring up (children); to raise; to bear |
| 养生 | yǎng shēng | to maintain good health; to raise a child or animal; curing (of concrete etc) |
| 养地 | yǎng dì | to maintain the land (with rotation of crops or fertilizer) |
| 养儿防老 | yǎng ér fáng lǎo | (of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age |
| 自养 | zì yǎng | self-sustaining; economically independent (of state aid, foreign subsidy etc) |
| 家养 | jiā yǎng | domestic (animals); home reared |
| 养家 | yǎng jiā | to support a family; to raise a family |
| 养性 | yǎng xìng | mental or spiritual cultivation |
| 养花 | yǎng huā | growing flowers |