養
yǎng HSK2

raise, bring up

养 (養) yǎng
raise verb
to keep or raise animals or pets

他在院子里养了几只鸡。

tā zài yuàn​zi lǐ yǎng le jǐ zhī jī.

He raised a few chickens in the yard.

rear verb
to bring up and nurture children

她辛辛苦苦几十年，终于把几个孩子都养大了。

tā xīn​xīn​kǔ​kǔ jǐ​shí nián, zhōng​yú bǎ jǐ gè hái​zi dōu yǎng​dà le.

She worked hard for decades and finally raised all her children.

support verb
to provide for someone's livelihood or maintain a family financially

他一个人挣钱要养五口人，压力非常大。

tā yī gè rén zhèng​qián yào yǎng wǔ kǒu rén, yā​lì fēi​cháng dà.

He earns money alone to support a family of five, so the pressure is very high.

Cross-References

Has old 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 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
养
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+990A

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