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CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.to have children
  2. 2.to raise or bring up
  3. 3.to educate

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to give birth to
  2. 2.to raise; to bring up; to rear
  3. 3.to educate
  4. 4.a surname
  5. 5.used in 杭育 (hángyō, “heave-ho”)
  6. 6.ancient form of 胄 (zhòu, “descendant”)

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Etymology

Evolved geometrically from 胄 (*l'ɯwɢs) in Han dynasty era (Liu, 2023). Before that, Pronunciation 1 was written as 毓; see there for more. Schuessler, 2007 compares Jingpho [script needed] (lu³¹, “to give birth (to a child)”), based on Zhengzhang's Old Chinese reconstruction; however, Baxter and Sagart's reconstruction makes a connection doubtful. For the B-S reconstruction, note similarities to Burmese မွေး (mwe:, “to give birth, raise”).

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