養

See also: 养

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 羊 + semantic 食

Han character

養 (radical 184 食+6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿人戈日女 (TOIAV), four-corner 8073₂, composition ⿱𦍌食)

1. raise, rear, bring up
2. support

References

• KangXi: page 1419, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44144
• Dae Jaweon: page 1943, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4452, character 8
• Unihan data for U+990A

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Chinese

		-
trad.		養
simp.		养

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎng (yang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): iúⁿ / ióng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yang³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeang
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng⁵
    • Yale: yéuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iúⁿ / ióng
    • Tâi-lô: iúnn / ióng
    • IPA (Taipei): /iũ⁴¹/, /iɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iũ⁵³/, /iɔŋ⁵³/
  • Note: iúⁿ - vernacular, ióng - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (養, reconstructed)
Character (養), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 陽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 餘兩切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨɐŋX/	/i̯aŋX/	/iaŋX/	/jiɐŋX/	/jɨaŋX/	/jĭaŋX/	/iɑŋX/
Character (養), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 陽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 餘亮切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨɐŋH/	/i̯aŋH/	/iaŋH/	/jiɐŋH/	/jɨaŋH/	/jĭaŋH/	/iɑŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (養, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
養								yǎng								‹ yangX ›								/*[ɢ](r)aŋʔ/								long, longing
養								yǎng								‹ yangX ›								/*[ɢ]aŋʔ/								nourish, raise
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
養					14613					養					陽					0					養					/*laŋʔ/					說文羊聲
養					14616					養					陽					0					漾					/*laŋs/

Definitions

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References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

養

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: やしなう (yashinau)

Compounds

• 養育
• 養家
• 養魚
• 養雞
• 養子
• 養殖
• 養成
• 養父
• 養分
• 養母
• 養老 Retired

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Korean

Hanja

養 (yang) (hangeul 양, revised yang, McCune-Reischauer yang, Yale yang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

養 (dưỡng, dẳng)

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