Amazing Chinese Characters (671) Raise - 养（養）

 The shell bone script of character Raise is

The left is modified character Sheep or Goat, the right is a hand holding a stick. The character means that a shepherd herds sheep with a whip or stick.

The bronze script of character Raise is

The left is modified character Sheep or Goat, the right is a hand holding whip or stick.

The big seal script of character Raise is

The top is modified character Sheep or Goat, the bottom is a food utensil. The character here means that to feed the sheep with food, such as grass which shows the lamb processing is changed from grazing on wild to feeding in farm.

The small seal script of character Raise is

The top is modified character Sheep or Goat, the bottom is the food utensil. 

The clerical script of character Raise is

The top is modified character Sheep or Goat, the bottom is character Good Person, which is a mistake. Because character Good Person looks like character Food 食，but the top 人 is belong to the character Sheep or Goat on the top, therefore, the bottom is not character 食，but 良.

The simplified song typeface is 

The top is same as its clerical script, the bottom is changed to one falling left stroke plus one vertical stroke, which means nothing, but reduced the number of strokes. The pictography of the character is totally lost.

The pinyin of the character is Yang3.