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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
- —養老保険endowment insurance
- —養殖真珠cultured pearl
- —養護学級school for the disabled; special school
- —養護学校special school; special needs school; school for children with physical or mental disabilities
- —養護施設children's home; child care institution; orphanage
- —養護教諭school nurse; nurse teacher; health teacher
- —教養課程general education course
- —栄養塩類nutritive salts
- —栄養器官vegetative organ
- —栄養生殖vegetative reproduction
- —永代供養services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul
- —栄養満点highly nourishing (nutritious); earning top marks nutrition-wise
- —開眼供養ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul)
- —精神修養moral (spiritual) improvement; practice mental training; cultivate one's mind (soul)
- —夫婦養子adopting a married couple; married couple adopted into the family
- —末期養子deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed
- —貧栄養湖lake with low nutrient level; oligotrophic lake; unproductive lake
- —療養病床long term care bed; long term care beds; chronic stage bed; chronic stage beds
- —水産養殖aquaculture
- —栄養過多overnutrition; excessive nutritional intake