養 — foster, bring up, rear

よう養 foster

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+990A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #888 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1591 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

foster
bring up
rear
develop
nurture

word

よう you On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

養(よう) you nurture 養(よう) 成(せい) yousei training 栄(えい) 養(よう) eiyou nutrition 教(きょう) 養(よう) kyouyou culture 養(よう) 子(し) youshi adopted child 休(きゅう) 養(よう) kyuuyou rest 養(よう) 老(ろう) yourou caring for the elderly 養(よう) 育(いく) youiku upbringing

やしな yashina Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

養(やしな) う yashinau to support

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひつじ羊 sheep #123

しょく食 eat #184

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#184 食 eat