育てる

そだてる · sodateru · JLPT N4 · verb-ichidan

to raise

🌱 育 = a newborn child over flesh: to nourish a child into growth

The kanji 育 stacks an upside-down child (a baby being born) on 月, the flesh radical: feeding a body so it grows. 育てる is the transitive partner of 育つ (to grow up): you 育てる a child or a plant, and it 育つ.

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