食
Primary radical
食 is the Unicode primary radical used to organise 養.
食 is the Unicode primary radical used to organise 養.
羊 is recorded as the sound-side component in this pictophonetic analysis.
Each square adds one stroke in the standard writing order.
to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support
養 has 15 strokes. Follow the animated stroke-order sequence above, then practise it on the writing page.
食 is the radical in 養. It can provide a meaning-side clue.
This character does not yet have linked HSK word entries in the study archive.