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教养

jiào yǎng

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

教养 (jiào yǎng) means "to educate; to bring up; to nurture; upbringing; breeding; culture". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 教养 means

1. to educate; to bring up; to nurture
2. upbringing; breeding; culture

The characters in 教养

• 教jiāoto teach; to instruct
• 养yǎngto raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets)

Example sentences

• 他是个有教养的人。
  Tā shì gè yǒu jiàoyǎng de rén.
  He is a learned man.
• 虽说是高学历，也未必就有教养。
  Suīshuō shì gāoxuélì, yě wèibì jiù yǒu jiàoyǎng.
  A good education doesn't imply a good upbringing.
• 在教养上，他们可以说是和野蛮人差不多。
  Zàijiào yǎng shàng, tāmen kěyǐ shuō shì hé yěmánrén chàbuduō.
  With regards to culture, you could say they're like barbarians.

Words containing 教养

• 劳动教养láo dòng jiào yǎngreeducation through labor

Where 教养 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiào–jié (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 jiào yǎng correctly.
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