養

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 羊 + semantic 食 (“‘to feed’”)

[edit] Han character

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

1. raise, rear, bring up
2. support

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

養 (Yale yeung5)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

養 (grade 4 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: やしなう (yashinau)

[edit] Compounds

• 養育
• 養家
• 養魚
• 養鶏
• 養子
• 養殖
• 養成
• 養父
• 養分
• 養母
• 養老

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

養 (simplified 养, pinyin yǎng (yang3), Wade-Giles yang³)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

養 (*iɑ̌ng)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

養 (dưỡng, dẳng)