HSK 5 · Food

营养 yíngyǎng “nutrition” in Chinese

Traditional 營養

What 营养 means

  1. nutrition
  2. nourishment

Measure word 种 zhǒng · 一种营养 yì zhǒng yíngyǎng

How to say 营养

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale营yíng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale养yǎng3rd tone, dipping

营养 in a sentence

  1. 她很关心孩子的营养问题。

    Tā hěn guānxīn háizi de yíngyǎng wèntí.

    She cares a lot about her child’s nutrition.

    Sentence #345694 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这些东西构成了一顿营养均衡的饭。

    Zhèxiē dōngxi gòuchéng le yí dùn yíngyǎng jūnhéng de fàn.

    Together, these make a nutritionally balanced meal.

    Sentence #1397099 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 营养 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 营 (yíng) with each of its parts in a different colour
营yíngcamp
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 吕a musical note · lǚ
The character 养 (yǎng) drawn as one shape
养yǎngto raise

养 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 营养

营 11 strokes · 养 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

营养 (yíngyǎng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 营养 (yíngyǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 营养

Words with 营

经营jīngyíng · to run (a business)营业yíngyè · to do business夏令营xiàlìngyíng · summer camp

Words with 养

养yǎng · to raise (animals)养成yǎngchéng · to cultivate培养péiyǎng · to cultivate抚养fǔyǎng · to raise (a child)保养bǎoyǎng · to take care of (one’s health)教养jiàoyǎng · upbringing饲养sìyǎng · to raise修养xiūyǎng · self-cultivation

More words: Food & Dining

胃口wèikǒu · appetite香肠xiāngcháng · sausage小麦xiǎomài · wheat宴会yànhuì · banquet油炸yóuzhá · to deep fry玉米yùmǐ · corn煮zhǔ · to boil馋chán · greedy (for food)

FAQs

营养 (yíngyǎng) means “nutrition” or “nourishment”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yíngyǎng: yíng with a 2nd tone, then yǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 营养 is written 營養. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 种 (zhǒng). For example, one nutrition is 一种营养 (yì zhǒng yíngyǎng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yingyang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 营养 from the suggestions. Typing yingyang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
营养 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.