HSK 7–9 vocabularyHSK 3.0

收养

shōuyǎng

Traditional: 收養

to take in and care for (an elderly person, a dog etc)

HSK 7–9
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Meaning of 收养 in English

shōuyǎngHSK 7–9verbSyllabus #9125
  1. to take in and care for (an elderly person, a dog etc)
  2. to adopt (a child)
  3. adoption

Example sentences

  1. 他们收养了那个小女孩。
    tā men shōu yǎng le nà ge xiǎo nǚ hái。
    They adopted the little girl.
    Tatoeba #782323 by fucongcong · #291023 by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
  2. 我们收养了一个孩子。
    wǒ men shōu yǎng le yí gè hái zi。
    We adopted a child.
    Tatoeba #9690048 by iMaple · #263053 by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
  3. 我妻子想收养一个孩子。
    wǒ qī zǐ xiǎng shōu yǎng yí gè hái zi。
    My wife wants to adopt a child.
    Tatoeba #1415755 by sadhen · #1413465 by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

Sentence pinyin is generated automatically and may contain errors.

Characters

收 on its own →
shōu · to receive

HSK words with 收

收HSK 3收到HSK 3收费HSK 4收入HSK 4收拾HSK 4收听HSK 4回收HSK 5接收HSK 5收获HSK 5收集HSK 5
养 on its own →
yǎng · to raise (animals)

HSK words with 养

养HSK 3养成HSK 4培养HSK 5营养HSK 5养老HSK 6养老院HSK 6保养HSK 7–9抚养HSK 7–9供养HSK 7–9教养HSK 7–9

Level, pinyin and part of speech: HSK Syllabus (CLEC, Nov 2025). Definitions: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources & licences