养
yǎng HSK2

raise

养 養 yǎng
to support verb
to provide for one's family; to bring up children

你说你能养得起你母亲。

nǐ shuō nǐ néng yǎng de qǐ nǐ mǔ​qīn.

You said you could support your mother.

to raise verb
to keep or feed animals; to keep pets

你养了很多猫。

nǐ yǎng le hěn​duō māo.

You got a lot of cats.

他们把鸡养在房子里。

tā​men bǎ jī yǎng zài fáng​zi li.

They keep chickens in the house.

to recuperate noun
to rest, nurse one's health, or recover from an illness; to care for one's body
adoptive verbnoun
(bound form) related by adoption rather than birth; foster
to cultivate verbparticle
to form a habit; to cultivate one's character, mind, or skills
to provide for nounverb
(literary) to support or look after one's elders
to give birth to
to give birth to a child
surname
a Chinese surname
to grow
to cultivate or grow plants or flowers

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
760th most common 246.5 per million
Movie subtitles
804th most common 156.1 per million appears in 50% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
87.3 per million appears in 26% of films
Written text
79.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
養
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+517B

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)