Jisho

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養

15 strokes
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
并 王 羊 食
Variants:
羪
foster, bring up, rear, develop, nurture
Kun:
やしな.う
On:
ヨウ、 リョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
888 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 養子 【ヨウシ】 adopted child (usu. male), son-in-law
  • 養育 【ヨウイク】 bringing up, rearing, upbringing
  • 供養 【クヨウ】 memorial service for the dead, holding a service
  • 培養 【バイヨウ】 culture, cultivation, cultivation (of plants), growing, raising, cultivation (e.g. of a skill), nurture (of democracy, national power, etc.), growth

Kun reading compounds

  • 養う 【やしなう】 to support, to maintain, to provide for, to bring up, to raise, to rear, to feed, to adopt (a child), to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.), to develop, to build up, to foster, to recuperate (from injury, illness, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yang3, yang4
Korean:
yang

Spanish

  • criar
  • mantener
  • cultivarse

Portuguese

  • alimentar
  • educar
  • cultivar
  • desenvolvee
  • nutrir

French

  • nourrir
  • élever
  • cultiver
  • soigner
  • développer
731 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
624 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
594 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
605 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3671 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
773 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1907 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2558 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
402 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
406 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
675 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1901 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2998 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1531 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2089 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1491 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44144 Morohashi
2365 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6691 New Nelson (John Haig)
1479 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1591 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
629 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
965 2001 Kanji
2o13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-12 SKIP code
2-8-7 SKIP code
2-2-13 SKIP code
2-6-9 SKIP code
8073.2 Four corner code
1-45-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
990a Unicode hex code

生

5 strokes
Radical:
life 生
Parts:
生
life, genuine, birth
Kun:
い.きる、 い.かす、 い.ける、 う.まれる、 うま.れる、 う.まれ、 うまれ、 う.む、 お.う、 は.える、 は.やす、 き、 なま、 なま-、 な.る、 な.す、 む.す、 -う
On:
セイ、 ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
29 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
  • 生育 【セイイク】 birth and growth, giving birth and raising, development, breeding
  • 回生 【カイセイ】 resurrection, resuscitation, coming back to life, regeneration, nth-year university student
  • 公衆衛生 【コウシュウエイセイ】 public health, public hygiene, sanitation
  • 生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself, student
  • 生家 【セイカ】 house where one was born, one's parents' house
  • 殺生 【セッショウ】 killing, destruction of life, cruel, heartless, callous, brutal
  • 死生 【シセイ】 life and death

Kun reading compounds

  • 生きる 【いきる】 to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)
  • 生きる糧 【いきるかて】 source of vitality, life sustenance
  • 生かす 【いかす】 to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
  • 生ける 【いける】 to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live
  • 生ける屍 【いけるしかばね】 living corpse
  • 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
  • 生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
  • 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
  • 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
  • 生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
  • 生まれつき 【うまれつき】 by nature, by birth, naturally, natural, innate
  • 生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
  • 生う 【おう】 to grow (of plants), to spring up
  • 生える 【はえる】 to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)
  • 生やす 【はやす】 to grow, to cultivate, to let grow (e.g. weeds)
  • 生 【き】 pure, undiluted, raw, crude
  • 生地 【きじ】 cloth, fabric, material, texture, dough, batter, inherent quality, one's true character, one's true colours, unglazed pottery, skin with no make-up, uncoated metal
  • 死に生き 【しにいき】 death and life, death or life, death
  • 生 【なま】 raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (sex), raw, bareback, live (i.e. not recorded), inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude, impudence, sauciness, unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer, blank (e.g. disk), unused, just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-, insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory, cash, tipsiness
  • 生り 【なまり】 boiled and half-dried bonito
  • お生 【おなま】 impudence, sauciness
  • 現ナマ 【げんナマ】 cold cash, hard cash
  • 生る 【なる】 to bear fruit
  • 生す 【なす】 to have a child
  • 生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
あさ、 いき、 いく、 いけ、 うぶ、 うまい、 え、 おい、 ぎゅう、 くるみ、 ごせ、 さ、 じょう、 すぎ、 そ、 そう、 ちる、 なば、 にう、 にゅう、 ふ、 み、 もう、 よい、 りゅう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sheng1
Korean:
saeng

Spanish

  • vida
  • nacimiento
  • vivir
  • existir
  • nacer
  • dar a luz
  • puro
  • crudo

Portuguese

  • vida
  • genuína
  • nascimento

French

  • vie
  • naissance
  • authentique
  • cru
34 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
44 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
42 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
29 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2991 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
67 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
71 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
214 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.4 Japanese for Busy People
44 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
44 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
49 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1327 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4309 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2179 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2933 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1569 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21670 Morohashi
3497 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3715 New Nelson (John Haig)
1555 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1675 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
9 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
43 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2472 2001 Kanji
0a5.29 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
2510.0 Four corner code
1-32-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
751f Unicode hex code