การ เลี้ยง ดู
“การ เลี้ยง ดู” (кан лианг дуу) — upbringing; raising (children) in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "the deed of raising and watching": kan turns an action into a thing, as in the familiar happiness. It is a long process, not a one-off order. In a live sentence: “การ เลี้ยง ดู เด็ก ยาก” — Raising a child is hard. Written with the characters ก, า, ร, เ, ล, ี, ้, ย, ง, ด, ู. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | การ เลี้ยง ดู |
| Read in Latin letters | кан лианг дуу |
| Translation | upbringing; raising (children) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the deed of raising and watching": kan turns an action into a thing, as in the familiar happiness. It is a long process, not a one-off order
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- การ เลี้ยง ดู เด็ก ยากкан лианг дуу дек йакRaising a child is hard
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “upbringing; raising (children)” in Thai?
«การ เลี้ยง ดู», read “кан лианг дуу”. In a live sentence: “การ เลี้ยง ดู เด็ก ยาก” — Raising a child is hard. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ก, า, ร, เ, ล, ี, ้, ย, ง, ด, ู.
How is “การ เลี้ยง ดู” written in Latin letters?
кан лианг дуу. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "the deed of raising and watching": kan turns an action into a thing, as in the familiar happiness. It is a long process, not a one-off order. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.