孕育

yùn yù · HSK 7

to nurture

🤰🌱 孕 (pregnant) + 育 (to raise) = to gestate and nurture into being

孕 carries the womb sense (it contains 子, child); 育 is the same 'raise/educate' character as in 教育 (education). Together they mean to incubate or give rise to something — a child, a movement, an idea.

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