Chinese symbol for “nourish”
滋养
zī yǎng
Traditional: 滋養
to nourish
The closest CC-CEDICT match for nourish is 滋养 (zī yǎng), defined as: to nourish.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “nourish”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 滋养.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 艾滋病 | ài zī bìng | (loanword) AIDS |
| 滋味 | zī wèi | taste; flavor |
| 滋润 (滋潤) | zī rùn | moist; humid |
| 滋生 | zī shēng | to breed; to flourish |
| 爱滋病 (愛滋病) | ài zī bìng | variant of 艾滋病 (ài zī bìng) |
| 培养 (培養) | péi yǎng | to cultivate; to breed |
| 营养 (營養) | yíng yǎng | nutrition; nourishment |
| 养殖 (養殖) | yǎng zhí | to raise; to breed (animals etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “nourish”.
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.