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育てる

そだてる

to bring up, to breed

Mnemonic

A child arrives the way children arrive, and then somebody spends twenty years on it. She did that three times over, on soda そだ and toast: そだてる.

Worth knowing

育つ そだつ is a child growing up. 育てる is somebody raising them.

Built from

raise, bring up
A child drawn upside down over 月 the flesh, which is the way one arrives. Everything after that is the raising.

Words sharing these kanji

to be brought up, to grow

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