育 (juk6 | yu4) : give birth to; rear; educate

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育

juk6

yu4

[1] [v] give birth to; produce
[2] [v] rear; raise; bring up
[3] [v] educate; cultivate; nurture
[4] [n] education

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Stroke count: 8

Level: 1

Radical: 肉 (#130)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

育

This word has been viewed 8055 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 23rd Feb 2014 09:30

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育兒 juk6 ji4 yu4 er2 = parenting

科學育兒 fo1 hok6 juk6 ji4 ke1 xue2 yu4 er2 = The science of parenting

體育 tai2 juk6 ti3 yu4 = physical education; sports

教育界 gaau3 juk6 gaai3 jiao4 yu4 jie4 = educational circles

國民教育 gwok3 man4 gaau3 juk6 guo2 min2 jiao4 yu4 = national education

教育 gaau3 juk6 jiao4 yu4 = education

性教育 sing3 gaau3 juk6 xing4 jiao4 yv4 = sex education

體育場 tai2 juk6 coeng4 ti3 yu4 chang3 = stadium

生育 saang1 juk6 sheng1 yu4 = to give birth; to bear

養育 joeng5 juk6 yang3 yu4 = bring up
See all 73 compounds (CantoDict reports 87 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 1 example containing 育

今日所講嘅係國民教育。粵
What I'm going to talk today is national education.
[所 is used before the first verb 講 to form the first noun phrase 今日所講嘅, indicating that the second noun phrase (國民教育) must be a 'topic'. If 所 is omitted, the second noun phrase could either be a 'topic' or a 'speaker'. ]

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Decimal representation of this word: 育
Unicode code for this character: U+80b2 (off-site link)

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