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育

yù
verb #10,291

Meanings

  1. 1 to raise; to bring up
  2. 2 to educate; to cultivate
  3. 3 to give birth to

Examples

HSK 1
教育很重要。
Jiàoyù hěn zhòngyào.
Education is very important.
HSK 2
体育课是我最喜欢的课。
Tǐyùkè shì wǒ zuì xǐhuan de kè.
PE class is my favorite class.
HSK 2
她养育了三个孩子。
Tā yǎngyù le sān gè háizi.
She raised three children.

Tips

usage
育 is mainly used in compounds: 教育 (education), 体育 (physical education/sports), 培育 (cultivate), 养育 (raise children), 发育 (develop/grow).

Components

radical
⺼ ròu
flesh; body
The meat-flesh radical (a left-side variant of 肉, distinct from moon-月) sits underneath as the indexing radical. It grounds the abstract idea of birth and nurturing in the body, linking 育 to 胎, 胞 and other anatomy chars.
ideograph
亠 tóu
lid stroke (positional)
Dot-and-horizontal cap functions as a small positional lid above the rest of the character, a residual marker with no standalone reading. Historically the head of an upside-down child glyph: oracle-bone 育 showed a baby emerging head-first, and this lid is what survives of that newborn's crown.
semantic
厶 sī
private; small enclosure
Below the cap, this curl is the body of the inverted child being born. Read together with 亠 it forms a tiny upside-down 子 - the newborn slipping out - which is the original semantic core of bringing forth life.

Stroke Order

育 yù