育

育 · yù

produce, give birth to; educate

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

produce, give birth to; educate

Mandarin
yù
Cantonese
juk6

Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.

Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese

Readings recorded for 育 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.

Japanese 日本語

Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.

On’yomi · katakana

イクチュウジュ

Kun’yomi · hiragana

そだつそだてるはぐくむ

Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.

Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property

イク チュウ ジュ そだつ そだてる はぐくむ

Korean 한국어

Hanja readings · Hangul

육

Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.

Reading sources explained
육
KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kHangul ↗ · provisional property

육:0E

Vietnamese Tiếng Việt

Character readings · Quốc ngữ

dục

Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.

Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kVietnamese ↗ · provisional property

dục

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+80B2
Radical
肉 · 130
Strokes
8 · Unihan
Residual
4

Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.

Stroke order

8 strokes
育
Strokes
8
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

8 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Graphical structure

⿳亠厶⺝(GHJKPV)
⿳亠厶⺼(T)
How to read these symbols

⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.

BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.

Words & connections

Words using 育

Character connections

2 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.

Component roles · attributed

  • 肉 sound component · CJKVI analysis
    Source analysis · 肉聲

    Line 15036 · ⿱𠫓肉 · 肉聲 · source reference 5280020
    # 【字通】會意

Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
yuwk · 余六 反切 · #3207

Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.

Source row & reading categories

CSV line 16459 · yuwk = 通開三入東以

Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗

Sources & reference

Evidence & next depth

Source editions & exact scope ↗
Retained Unihan properties
kMandarin
yù
kCantonese
juk6
kDefinition
produce, give birth to; educate
kTotalStrokes
8
kRSUnicode
130.4
kGradeLevel
2
kTGH
2013:1225

Readings across dictionaries

Hanyu Da Zidian
yù,zhòu 32052.050
Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
yō 1390.040 · yù 1414.010
Small numbers locate dictionary entries; 粵 introduces Cantonese. Includes rare or historical readings. Source notation ↗

Reference desk

Sentences in context

Find examples using 育 ↗

The attributed sentence collection is still small; this spelling has no retained example yet.

Study this character

Structure & connections

0.10
128dictionary records using 育3forms using this shape2attributed sound links
⿳ Three rows

Shape description
亠 above 厶 above ⺝ · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam
Source notation ^⿳亠厶⺝$(GHJKPV)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿳亠厶⺝$(GHJKPV)

^⿳亠厶⺼$(T)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.