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培

péi
verb #12,174

Meanings

  1. 1 to cultivate; to foster; to train
  2. 2 to bank up (soil around a plant)

Examples

公司培训了很多新员工。
Gōngsī péixùn le hěnduō xīn yuángōng.
The company trained many new employees.
培养孩子的好习惯很重要。
Péiyǎng háizi de hǎo xíguàn hěn zhòngyào.
Cultivating good habits in children is important.

Tips

usage
培训 (péixùn) = to train. 培养 (péiyǎng) = to cultivate/foster. 栽培 (zāipéi) = to grow (plants)/to nurture.

Components

radical
土 tǔ
earth; soil
土 (earth) is the indexing radical. The original image is heaping soil around a plant's roots to nurture it — what 培 still means literally (培土 means to bank up soil). From there it extends to nurturing people, training, cultivating talent. Compare 栽 (plant), 育 (raise), 植 (cultivate).
phonetic
咅 pǒu
rejecting sound (archaic)
咅 (pǒu) supplies the sound, drifted to péi. 咅 is rare standalone — it survives almost entirely as a phonetic-driver across 培 (cultivate), 倍 (double), 部 (section), 陪 (accompany), 赔 (compensate). Spotting it inside a character is a reliable péi/bèi sound flag.

Stroke Order

培 péi