Kanji1 / 15
養 kanji
foster, bring up, rear, develop, nurture
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
ヨウリョウ
Kun readings
やしなう
Variant forms
养羪Words with 養
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —腐植栄養湖dystrophic lake
- —薬より養生prevention is better than cure
- —養子に行くto be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child
- —養子に出すto put up for adoption
- —非経口栄養parenteral nutrition; parenteral alimentation
- —養成テープmasking tape; curing tape
- —水源涵養林watershed protection forest
- —教養のないcrude; philistine; uncultivated; uneducated; vulgar
- —管理栄養士registered dietitian; nationally certified nutritionist
- —自宅療養者person managing their symptoms (e.g. of a mild case of COVID-19) at home; person recuperating at home
- —養生テープmasking tape
- —成分栄養剤elemental diet (formula)
- —東養護学校Higashi Special Needs School (older name style)
- —南養護学校Minami Special Needs School (older name style)
- —養殖研究所National Research Institute of Aquaculture; NRIA
- —看護婦養成所nurses' training school
- —医者の不養生failing to practice what one preaches
- —栄養ドリンクenergy drink; nutritional supplement drink; vitamin drink
- —栄養補助食品nutritional supplement; dietary supplement
- —普通養子縁組regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)