养 (養) yǎng

1. yǎng verb to raise; to bring up (children, animals); to give birth
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Family
   Notes: (Unihan '養')
2. yǎng verb to raise; to bring up (children, animals); to keep; to support; to give birth
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Family
   Notes: (Unihan '養')

Contained in

• 养母(養母) foster mother; adoptive mother
• 收养(收養) to adopt ; adoption
• 营养师(營養師) nutritionist; dietitian
• 补养(補養) to take a tonic or nourishing food to build up one's health
• 供养(供養) to provide for one's elders; to support one's parents ; to make offerings; to provide offerings; to worship
• 饲养(飼養) to raise; to rear
• 禄养(祿養) to support somebody with official pay
• 养虎为患(養虎為患) to nurture a tiger invites calamity; to indulge one's enemy is asking for trouble
• 包养(包養) to provide for; to keep (a mistress)
• 养儿防老(養兒防老) (of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
• 涵养(涵養) to conserve; to restrain
• 亲子教养(親子教養) parental education
• 家养(家養) domestic (animals); home reared
• 养尊处优(養尊處優) to live like a prince
• 养生法(養生法) regime (diet)
• 闭目养神(閉目養神) to close your eyes and collect your spirit
• 抚养成人(撫養成人) to bring up (a child)
• 母乳喂养(母乳餵養) breastfeeding
• 养汉(養漢) to commit adultery (of married woman)
• 驯养繁殖场(馴養繁殖場) captive breeding facility; breeding farm
• 养精蓄锐(養精蓄銳) to preserve and nurture one's spirit; honing one's strength for the big push
• 休养(休養) to recuperate
• 将养(將養) to support; to take care of
• 饲养员(飼養員) zookeeper; stockman; breeder (of livestock, dogs or poultry etc)
• 惯养(慣養) to spoil; to indulge somebody (usu. a child)
• 养正命(養正命) took care of his physical well-being
• 厚养薄葬(厚養薄葬) generous care but a thrifty funeral
• 休养生息(休養生息) to recuperate
• 俭以养廉(儉以養廉) frugality makes honesty
• 弃养(棄養) the passing of parents
• 养羊(養羊) sheep husbandry
• 水产养殖(水產養殖) aquaculture
• 养殖(養殖) to breed
• 疗养(療養) to get well; to heal; to recuperate; to convalesce
• 培养(培養) to train; to culture; to groom ; to take care of ; to culture [plants]
• 养生送死(養生送死) to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom)
• 教养(教養) to train; to educate ; good upbringing; moral character
• 保养(保養) to take good care of one's health ; to maintain
• 喂养(餵養) to feed (a child, domestic animal etc); to keep; to raise (an animal)
• 抚养费(撫養費) child support payment (after a divorce)
• 养活(養活) to support
• 生养 to bring up (children); to raise; to bear ; to bring up (children); to raise; to bear
• 养神(養神) to rest; to recuperate; to regain composure
• 养老送终(養老送終) to look after one's aged parents and arrange proper burial after they die
• 养花(養花) growing flowers
• 认养(認養) adoption
• 养痈遗患(養癰遺患) to foster an ulcer and bequeath a calamity; tolerating budding evil can only lead to disaster
• 以药养医(以藥養醫) drugs serving to nourish doctors, perceived problem in PRC medical practice
• 滋养(滋養) to nourish
• 养性(養性) mental or spiritual cultivation

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Truncated for common words

• 卷三百十五 列傳第二百〇三 雲南土司三 Volume 315 Biographies 203: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 61
• 卷一百九十八 志第一百五十一 兵十二 Volume 198 Treatises 151: Military 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 36
• 卷五　Scroll 5 Discourses on Salt and Iron 鹽鐵論 — count: 24
• 《告子章句上》 Commentary on Gaozi I Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 23
• 卷三十九 劉趙淳于江劉周趙列傳 Volume 39: Biographies of Liu, Zhao, Chunyu, Jiang, Liu, Zhou, Zhao Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 23
• 卷三百十四 列傳第二百〇二 雲南土司二 Volume 314 Biographies 202: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 21
• 禮論篇第十九 Chapter 19: Discussion on Ceremony Xunzi 荀子 — count: 20
• 《書‧禮書》 Treatises - Rites Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 20
• 卷五十三 Scroll 53 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 18
• 卷二百八十二 列傳第一百七十 儒林一 Volume 282 Biographies 170: Confucian Scholars 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 18

Collocations

• 养国 (養國) 有虞氏養國老於上庠 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 10
• 养庶 (養庶) 養庶老於下庠 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 8
• 养民 (養民) 政在養民 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 大禹謨 Yu Shu - Counsels of the Great Yu — count: 5
• 人养 (人養) 殷人養國老於右學 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 4
• 氏养 (氏養) 有虞氏養國老於上庠 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 4
• 能养 (能養) 必能養民 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
• 养万民 (養萬民) 以養萬民 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 3
• 在养 (在養) 政在養民 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 大禹謨 Yu Shu - Counsels of the Great Yu — count: 2
• 曰养 (曰養) 其居人也曰養 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《禮運》 Ceremonial Usages; their Origins, Development, and Intention — count: 2
• 养人 (養人) 非養人者也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《禮運》 Ceremonial Usages; their Origins, Development, and Intention — count: 2