shōu yǎng

Traditional: 收養

HSK 6

收养 (shōu yǎng) is a Chinese word meaning “to take in and care for (an elderly person, a dog etc); to adopt (a child); adoption”.

Meanings

  1. 1to take in and care for (an elderly person, a dog etc)
  2. 2to adopt (a child)
  3. 3adoption
Part of speech
verb

Characters in 收养

收shōu · to receive养yǎng · to raise (animals)

Related words

收到to receive收to receive养to raise (animals)收拾to put in order收集to gather收回to regain收入to take in抚养to foster收看to watch (a TV program)收音机radio收藏to collect (works of art, dolls, antiques etc); to put away for safekeeping; (Internet) to bookmark收获to harvest

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