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養

简养 · 繁養

Mandarin · pinyin yǎng

to raise (animals)
to bring up (children)
to keep (pets)
to support
to give birth

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養: yǎng · raise, rear, bring up; support
养: yǎng · raise, rear, bring up; support

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3 · yang3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

joeng5 · joeng6

Cantonese word readings for 養. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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to raise; to rear
to support; to provide for; to bring up
to give birth to
to rest; to convalesce
to maintain
to cultivate; to form
to let one's hair grow
to support; to help
(in compounds) foster; adoptive
accomplishment; cultivation
81st tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "fostering" (𝍖)
(～日) (telegraphy) the twenty-second day of a month
(obsolete, chemistry) oxygen

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to support and provide for (parents or elder relatives)

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