孳乳

Chinese

		industrious; produce; bear	breast; milk
simp. and trad. (孳乳)		孳	乳

孳乳

(literary) to multiply; to propagate
- 文者，物象之本；字者，言孳乳而寖多也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: 《說文解字》序
  Wén zhě, wùxiàng zhī běn; zì zhě, yán zīrǔ ér jìnduō yě. [Pinyin]
  Writing is the basis of expressing ideas; words are speech propagating and multiplying.

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