養 : Foster

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Components:

羊食

foster, bring up, rear, develop, nurture

On 'yomi:

ヨウ(you) リョウ(ryou)

Kun 'yomi:

やしな.う(yashina.u)

Nanori:

や(ya)

Strokes:	15
Radical:	食 (184)
Usage Rating:	888

JLPT:	N1
old JLPT:	1
Grade:	4

Unicode:	0990a
jis208:	45-60

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養 Usage examples

栄養源(えいようげん)	source of nutrients
栄養短(えいようたん)	Junior College of Nutrition
養い子(やしないご)	foster child
養い育てる(やしないそだてる)	to bring up, to foster, to rear
養殖池(ようしょくち)	fish pond
養鯉(ようり)	carp breeding
教養課程(きょうようかてい)	general education course
教養部(きょうようぶ)	college of liberal arts (general education), liberal arts school
養殖場(ようしょくじょう)	nursery, (breeding) farm
療養費(りょうようひ)	medical expenses
栄養塩類(えいようえんるい)	nutritive salts
栄養器官(えいようきかん)	vegetative organ
栄養生殖(えいようせいしょく)	vegetative reproduction
永代供養(えいたいくよう)	services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul
栄養満点(えいようまんてん)	highly nourishing (nutritious), earning top marks nutrition-wise
開眼供養(かいげんくよう)	ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul)
精神修養(せいしんしゅうよう)	moral (spiritual) improvement, practice mental training
夫婦養子(めおとようし)	adopting a married couple, married couple adopted into the family
末期養子(まつごようし)	deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line), person adopted by someone on his deathbed
貧栄養湖(ひんえいようこ)	lake with low nutrient level, oligotrophic lake, unproductive lake
療養病床(りょうようびょうしょう)	long term care bed, long term care beds, chronic stage bed, chronic stage beds
水産養殖(すいさんようしょく)	aquaculture
養和(ようわ)	Youwa era (1181.7.14-1182.5.27)
栄養過多(えいようかた)	overnutrition, excessive nutritional intake
栄養物(えいようぶつ)	nutritive material
医者の不養生(いしゃのふようじょう)	failing to practice what one preaches, physician, heal thyself, doctors often neglect their own health
養親(ようしん)	adopter, adopting parent or parents, adoptive parent or parents, foster parent or parents