HSK 6 · Nature

饲养 sìyǎng “to raise” in Chinese

Traditional 飼養

What 饲养 means

  1. to raise
  2. to rear (animals)
  3. to rear

How to say 饲养

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale饲sì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale养yǎng3rd tone, dipping

饲养 in a sentence

  1. 这个农场饲养了很多牛和羊。

    Zhè ge nóngchǎng sìyǎng le hěn duō niú hé yáng.

    This farm raises lots of cattle and sheep.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 动物园的饲养员每天给动物喂食。

    Dòngwùyuán de sìyǎngyuán měitiān gěi dòngwù wèishí.

    The zookeepers feed the animals every day.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 饲养 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 饲 (sì) with each of its parts in a different colour
饲sìto raise
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 司to take charge of · sīSound part

饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 司 (sī) hints at the sound. Compare it with sì.

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 饲养

饲 8 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.

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

Words related to 饲养

Words with 养

养yǎng · to raise (animals)养成yǎngchéng · to cultivate营养yíngyǎng · nutrition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修养xiūyǎng · self-cultivation

More words: Nature & Environment

生态shēngtài · ecology生物shēngwù · living thing石油shíyóu · oil水利shuǐlì · water conservancy台风táifēng · typhoon天然气tiānránqì · natural gas田野tiányě · fields土壤tǔrǎng · soil

FAQs

饲养 (sìyǎng) means “to raise” or “to rear (animals)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it sìyǎng: sì with a 4th 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, 饲养 is written 飼養. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type siyang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饲养 from the suggestions. Typing siyang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饲养 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.