# 育 — Nurture

Frequency rank 353 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 離 (Detach), less common than 帰 (Return Home).

- On’yomi: いく
- Kun’yomi: そだ
- Radical: 肉 Meat (Kangxi 130)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

Trash (亠) floats above the moon (月) — even the garbage of the world can be nurtured into something beautiful under moonlight.

In words:

- 育てる そだてる — to rear,to bring up
- 育つ そだつ — to raise (child),to be brought up,to grow (up)
- 育ち そだち — breeding;growth

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