Chinese symbol for “breeding”
孵化
fū huà
breeding; to incubate; innovation (esp. in commerce and marketing)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for breeding is 孵化 (fū huà), defined as: breeding; to incubate; innovation (esp. in commerce and marketing).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “breeding”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孵 | fū | breeding; to incubate |
| 育种 (育種) | yù zhǒng | to breed; breeding |
| 教养 (教養) | jiào yǎng | to educate; to bring up; to nurture; upbringing; breeding; culture |
| 选育 (選育) | xuǎn yù | seed selection; breeding |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 孵化.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孵化器 | fū huà qì | incubator (for eggs or startup businesses) |
| 孵化期 | fū huà qī | incubation period; time for sth to develop |
| 孵卵 | fū luǎn | to hatch; to brood |
| 孵蛋 | fū dàn | to incubate |
| 孵育 | fū yù | to incubate; to rear (chicks) |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
| 现代化 (現代化) | xiàn dài huà | modernization; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “breeding”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.