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喂养

wèi yǎng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 餵養

喂养 (wèi yǎng) means "to feed (a child, domestic animal etc); to keep; to raise (an animal)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 喂养 means

1. to feed (a child, domestic animal etc)
2. to keep
3. to raise (an animal)

The characters in 喂养

• 喂wèihey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
• 养yǎngto raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets)

Example sentences

• 就像食物喂养身体，所以阅读喂养心灵。
  Jiù xiàng shíwù wèiyǎng shēntǐ, suǒyǐ yuèdú wèiyǎng xīnlíng.
  Just as food feeds the body, so reading feeds the mind.

Words containing 喂养

• 母乳喂养mǔ rǔ wèi yǎngbreastfeeding

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