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)
On readings
ヨウリョウ
Kun readings
やしなう
Variant forms
养羪Words with 養
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —養老Popularmaking provision for the elderly; making provision for one's old age; spending one's old age in comfort; Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)
- —栄養士Populardietitian; (licensed) nutritionist
- —栄養素Popularnutrient
- —養老院Popularhome for the aged; old people's home
- —保養所Popularrecreation facility (usu. corporate-owned and for the exclusive use of the corporation's employees); rest home; retreat center
- —療養所Popularsanatorium
- —栄養学Populardietetics; nutritional science
- —養父母Popularadoptive parents
- —栄養失調Popularmalnutrition
- —加養caring for the sick; taking care of oneself
- —孝養filial duties; devotion to one's parents
- —修養self-improvement; (mental) training; self-discipline; cultivation
- —素養grounding (in a skill or subject); knowledge; training; achievements; attainments; accomplishments
- —養魚fish breeding; pisciculture
- —養女adopted daughter; foster daughter
- —養生taking care of one's health; recuperation; covering (with a protective material); coating; curing (concrete)
- —養母foster mother; adoptive mother
- —涵養cultivation (of character, virtue, etc.); fostering; development (e.g. of a skill); (groundwater) recharge
- —飼養breeding; raising
- —給養maintaining (e.g. a family); support; sustaining (an army); supplying (troops and horses) with provisions