育

See also: 毓

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 毓

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a woman giving birth. Originally a woman squatting on left, with child head down on right, with lines (川) below head (hair, coming out). Etymology clearer in alternative form 毓 (woman 母 on left, upside down child 㐬 on right; the top part is an abstracted body with a head at the bottom; compare 充).

Significantly simplified and abstracted in large seal and seal script: woman eliminated, lines 川 re-interpreted as ribs (肉, ⺼), thence simplified to 月.

育	育	育
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

育 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈月 (YIB), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿱云月)

1. produce, give birth to
2. educate

Related characters

• 充

See also

• 徹 (撤 轍) (etymologically unrelated, common simplification)

References

• KangXi: page 976, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29318
• Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2052, character 5
• Unihan data for U+80B2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

育 (Yale yuk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

育

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: いく (iku)
• Kun: そだてる (sodateru), はぐくむ (hagukumu), そだつ (sodatsu)

Compounds

• 教育 (きょういく, kyōiku, “education”)

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Korean

Hanja

育 (yuk) (hangeul 육, revised yuk, McCune-Reischauer yuk, Yale yuk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

育 (Pinyin yù (yu4), Wade-Giles yü⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

育 (dục)