繁育

Chinese

		complicated; many; in great numbers	nourish; to rear
trad. (繁育)		繁	育
simp. #(繁育)		繁	育

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fányù

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˊ ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁴ juk⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoân-io̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fányù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˊ ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fányù
    • Wade–Giles: fan²-yü⁴
    • Yale: fán-yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: farnyuh
    • Palladius: фаньюй (fanʹjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän³⁵ y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan⁴ juk⁶
    • Yale: fàahn yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁴ juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁴ yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²¹ jʊk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân-io̍k
    • Tâi-lô: huân-io̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoan'iok
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan¹³⁻²² iɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan²⁴⁻²² iɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²⁴⁻²² iɔk̚⁴/

Verb

繁育

1. to breed; to raise

Synonyms

• 乳 (rǔ) (literary, or in compounds)
• 增生 (zēngshēng)
• 滋生 (zīshēng)
• 生息 (shēngxī)
• 生殖 (shēngzhí)
• 繁殖 (fánzhí)
• 繁衍 (fányǎn)