育つ|そだつsodatsu[2]nakadaka (mid-high)

1. godan verb, intransitive verbto be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
   植物しょくぶつは土壌どじょうで育そだつ。↗

   Plants are nourished by earth.

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• Synonym成長せいちょうNeutralNoun/suru verb for growth in general, including companies and the economy (「経済成長」); 「育つ」 is the everyday verb for living things and children being raised.
• Synonym生育せいいくWrittenWritten word for growth and development, mostly of how plants are growing, as in 「稲の生育」; 「育つ」 is the more everyday choice.
• Synonym生長せいちょうWrittenWritten word mostly for plant growth, as in 「草木の生長」, though it can also mean being born and raised; 「育つ」 is the everyday verb.
• Synonym発育はついくNeutralPhysical growth and development, as in 「発育が良い」; stresses growing in a physiological sense, while 「育つ」 is more everyday and broader in scope.
• Synonym成育せいいくWrittenWritten word for people or animals growing to maturity, as in 「稚魚の成育」; found mainly in technical or specialist writing.
• Synonym育ち行くそだちゆくWrittenLiterary written form for going on growing, as in 「育ちゆく子ども」; like 「育つ」 but with an added sense of continuing growth.
• Related伸びるのびるNeutralFor getting taller or increasing, as in 「背が伸びる」 and 「売上が伸びる」; focuses on gains in length or quantity rather than being raised.
• Related発展はってんNeutralDevelopment and expansion of things like businesses or regions, as in 「都市の発展」; the subject is generally not a living thing.
• Related発達はったつNeutralDevelopment of body and mind or of skills, as in 「筋肉の発達」; stresses functions and structures becoming well formed, not being raised.
• Related実るみのるNeutralFor bearing fruit or efforts paying off, as in 「努力が実る」; centers on the results you reap, not the process of growing up.
• Related進歩しんぽNeutralProgress in skills or technology, as in 「医学の進歩」; about things getting better, not about living things growing up.
• Related成熟せいじゅくNeutralMaturing of fruit or of body and mind, as in 「成熟した大人」; stresses reaching a finished, complete state rather than the growing itself.
• Related進化しんかNeutralEvolution of species, by extension the advance of technology, as in 「スマホの進化」; not used for an individual growing up.
• Related生い立つおいたつWrittenRare written verb meaning to grow up; what you usually meet is the noun 「生い立ち」, and in everyday speech 「育つ」 is the normal choice.
• Related長じるちょうじるWrittenWritten word for growing to adulthood; also for excelling at something, as in 「音楽に長じる」; everyday speech uses 「育つ」.
• Related長ずるちょうずるWrittenOlder written variant of 「長じる」, seen mostly in the set phrase 「長ずるに及んで」, meaning once one has grown up.
• Antonym衰えるおとろえるNeutralAntonym: for strength or momentum fading, as in 「体力が衰える」; the opposite of the growth that 「育つ」 describes.
• Antonym枯れるかれるNeutralAntonym: for plants withering and dying, as in 「花が枯れる」; the opposite of 「育つ」 when talking about plants.

Use 「育つ」 for living things and children being raised and growing up. Among nouns, 「成長」 is growth in general, including companies and the economy; 「発育」 is physical development; 「発展」 is for businesses and regions; 「伸びる」 for getting taller or rising numbers. Written: 「生育」 and 「生長」 for plants, 「成育」 for people and animals, literary 「育ちゆく」. 「発達」 covers body, mind and skills; 「実る」 results of effort; 「進歩」 progress; 「成熟」 maturity; 「進化」 evolution or tech advances. Opposites: 「衰える」 for weakening, 「枯れる」 for plants dying.

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1. 生物せいぶつが成熟せいじゅくしてゆく、成長せいちょうする。
2. 技能ぎのうなどを身みにつける。
3. 発展はってんする。