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Chinese
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give birth; keep (pets); to support give birth; keep (pets); to support; to bring someone up; to raise (pig, etc.) |
child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; ( noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight |
| trad. (養子)
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養
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子
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| simp. (养子)
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养
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子
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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養
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子
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| Reading #
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2/2
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yǎng
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zǐ
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ yangX ›
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‹ tsiX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*aŋʔ/
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/*tsəʔ/
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| English
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nourish, raise
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child; gentleman, master
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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養
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子
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| Reading #
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1/2
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1/1
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| No.
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14613
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17857
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Phonetic
component
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養
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子
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Rime
group
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陽
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之
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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養
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子
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Old
Chinese
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/*laŋʔ/
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/*ʔslɯʔ/
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| Notes
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說文羊聲
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Noun
養子
- adopted child; foster child
Synonyms
See also
Verb
養子
- (literary or Hakka) to rear a child
Japanese
Noun
養子 • (yōshi)
- foster child
- A person who was adopted as a child.