HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Everyday Verbs

养 yǎng “to raise (animals)” in Chinese

Traditional 養

What 养 means

  1. to raise (animals)
  2. to keep (pets)
  3. to bring up (children)
  4. to support
  5. to give birth

How to say 养

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

养 in a sentence

  1. 你养宠物吗？

    Nǐ yǎng chǒngwù ma?

    Do you have any pets?

    Sentence #1050428 from Tatoeba

  2. 我养过一只猫。

    Wǒ yǎngguo yì zhī māo.

    I used to have a cat.

    Sentence #3213217 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我需要养两个孩子。

    Wǒ xūyào yǎng liǎng ge háizi.

    I have two children to bring up.

    Sentence #10369260 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 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 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 养

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.

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

Words related to 养

Words with 养

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饲养sìyǎng · to raise修养xiūyǎng · self-cultivation

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得到dédào · to get受shòu · to receive跳tiào · to jump收到shōudào · to receive爬pá · to climb练liàn · to practise不见bújiàn · to be missing刷shuā · to brush

FAQs

养 (yǎng) means “to raise (animals)” or “to keep (pets)”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it yǎng: 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, 养 is written 養. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 养 from the suggestions. Typing yang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
养 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older 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.