養

yǎng

A2 Level 4
Verb

養 (yǎng) is a Chinese word meaning “to raise (animals)”. It sits at TOCFL Level 4 (CEFR A2) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard.

Definition

  1. to raise (animals)
  2. to bring up (children)
  3. to keep (pets)
  4. to support
  5. to give birth

Stroke order

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Example

我家養了一隻貓和一隻狗。

We keep a cat and a dog at home.

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).