营养
yíngyǎng · HSK 3
nutrition
🥦🍎 营 = camp/manage + 养 = nourish/raise → managed nourishment = nutrition
营 carries the sense of running or managing (as in 经营), and 养 means to raise or feed (as in 养育). Together they name what the body manages and feeds on: nutrition.
养 — sheep 羊 (top) + 八 over 艮-like base; simplified from 養 (食 + 羊)
The traditional form 養 combined 食 'food' with 羊 'sheep' as the phonetic, depicting the act of feeding sheep and, by extension, raising or nourishing living things. The simplified form 养 keeps 羊 on top but drops the 食 component. From 'feed' the meaning broadened to rear, support, and cultivate.