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抚养

fǔ yǎng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 撫養

抚养 (fǔ yǎng) means "to foster; to bring up; to raise". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 抚养 means

1. to foster
2. to bring up
3. to raise

The characters in 抚养

• 抚fǔto comfort; to console; to stroke
• 养yǎngto raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets)

Example sentences

• 他要抚养一大家人。
  Tā yào fǔyǎng yī dàjiā rén.
  He has a large family to support.
• 她是怎么抚养孩子的？
  Tā shì zěnme fǔyǎng háizi de?
  How does she bring up her children?
• 我在乡下被抚养长大。
  Wǒ zài xiāngxia bèi fǔyǎng zhǎngdà.
  I was brought up in the country.
• 她是怎幺抚养孩子的？
  How does she bring up her children?
• 我被我的祖母抚养长大。
  I was brought up by my grandmother.
• 他被他的叔叔抚养长大。
  He was brought up by his uncle.

Words starting with 抚养

• 抚养费fǔ yǎng fèichild support payment (after a divorce)
• 抚养权fǔ yǎng quáncustody (of a child etc)
• 抚养成人fǔ yǎng chéng rénto bring up (a child)

Sounds the same

Read fǔ yǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 俯仰lowering and raising of the head; (fig.) small move; pitch (position angle)

Where 抚养 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fèng–fǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fǔ yǎng correctly.
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