HSK 6 · Family

抚养 fǔyǎng “to raise (a child)” in Chinese

Said as fúyǎng

Traditional 撫養

What 抚养 means

  1. to raise (a child)
  2. to bring up
  3. to foster
  4. to raise

How to say 抚养

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale抚fǔ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale养yǎng3rd tone, dipping

Said as fúyǎng. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. How tone changes work

抚养 in a sentence

  1. 她是怎么抚养孩子的？

    Tā shì zěnme fǔyǎng háizi de?

    How did she bring up her children?

    Sentence #4764656 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她不得不去工作来抚养五个孩子。

    Tā bùdébù qù gōngzuò lái fǔyǎng wǔ ge háizi.

    She had to go out to work to support her five children.

    Sentence #2456074 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我被我的祖母抚养长大。

    Wǒ bèi wǒ de zǔmǔ fǔyǎng zhǎngdà.

    I was brought up by my grandmother.

    Sentence #876696 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 抚养 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 抚 (fǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
抚fǔto comfort
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 无not · wúSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 无 (wú) hints at the sound. Compare it with fǔ.

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 抚养

抚 7 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.

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

Words related to 抚养

Words with 抚

抚摸fǔmō · to stroke

Words with 养

养yǎng · to raise (animals)养成yǎngchéng · to cultivate营养yíngyǎng · nutrition培养péiyǎng · to cultivate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: People, Body & Health

大伙儿dàhuǒr · everyone诞生dànshēng · to be born夫妇fūfù · married couple夫人fūrén · madam后代hòudài · descendants家伙jiāhuo · guy家属jiāshǔ · family member居民jūmín · resident

FAQs

抚养 (fǔyǎng) means “to raise (a child)” or “to bring up”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fǔyǎng: fǔ with a 3rd tone, then yǎng with a 3rd tone. In speech it sounds like fúyǎng. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. 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, 抚养 is written 撫養. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fuyang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 抚养 from the suggestions. Typing fuyang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
抚养 is an HSK 6 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.