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養子 (ようし, youshi) Japanese meaning: adopted child | Kotomora
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He was raised as an adopted child.
In the past, it was common to adopt a child to carry on the family line.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 を 養よう 子し にする to adopt someone as one's child
The couple adopted an orphan as their child.
〈 人ひと 〉 の 養よう 子し になる to become someone's adopted child
He became his uncle's adopted son.
養よう 子し を 取と る to take in an adopted child (esp. as an heir)
Childless couples often take in an adopted child as an heir.
Expressions 養よう 子し に 出だ す put up for adoption; send a child out for adoption 養よう 子し に 行い く be adopted; enter a family as an adopted child Kanji 子 child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM Related words 養子 broadly means an adopted child (traditionally a son or son-in-law heir), while 養女 specifically refers to an adopted daughter.
養子 refers to a child who has been legally adopted and takes the adoptive family's name, whereas 里子 is fostered without full legal adoption or name change.
Word family adopted son-in-law; son-in-law taken into the family
adoptionism
adoption of a married couple; married couple adopted into a family
deathbed adoption of a successor; person adopted on someone's deathbed
Etymology Compound of 養 (raise, foster) and 子 (child). The reading ようし is the on'yomi of both characters.
