育
yù HSK2

to have children

育 yù
raise verb
to rear, nurture, or bring up children, animals, or plants

爷爷在后院育了一些松树苗。

yé​ye zài hòu​yuàn yù le yī​xiē sōng​shù miáo.

Grandpa nurtured some pine seedlings in the backyard.

educate verb
to provide training, moral instruction, or intellectual development

学校不仅要教书，更重要的职责是育人。

xué​xiào bù​jǐn yào jiāo​shū, gèng zhòng​yào de zhí​zé shì yù rén.

Schools should not only teach books; an even more important duty is to educate people.

procreate adjective
to give birth to or have children

她正处于育龄阶段。

tā zhèng chǔ​yú yù líng jiē​duàn.

She is currently of childbearing age.

Frequency
Character
Written text
609th most common 343.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,223rd most common 69.0 per million appears in 28% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.58 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
19.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+80B2

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