養 · yǎng
raise, rear, bring up; support
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
raise, rear, bring up; support
- Mandarin
- yǎng
- Cantonese
- joeng5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 養 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
Kun’yomi · hiragana
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.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 양
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
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.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+990A
- Radical
- 食 · 184
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
15 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. This sequence has 15 strokes where Unihan counts 14; conventions count some components differently. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
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 養
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 羊 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 羊聲
Line 14501 · ⿱羊食 · 羊聲 · source reference 1800160
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- yangX · 餘兩 反切 · #1800
- Middle Chinese
- yangH · 餘亮 反切 · #2891
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 11565 · yangX = 宕開三上陽以 · yangH = 宕開三去陽以
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
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yǎng
- kCantonese
- joeng5
- kDefinition
- raise, rear, bring up; support
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 184.6
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+517B
- kGradeLevel
- 1
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yàng,yǎng 74452.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yǎng 1337.051
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- yǎng(430)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- yǎng粵joeng5 yǎng,yàng粵joeng6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 餘兩 餘亮
- Kangxi positions
- 1419.260
- Guangyun positions
- 310.12 424.33
- GSR references
- 0732j
- Cangjie
- TOIAV
- Four-corner
- 8073.2