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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

HSK 2
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.
HSK 4
公司培训了很多新员工。
Gōngsī péixùn le hěnduō xīn yuángōng.
The company trained many new employees.

Tips

usage
培训 = to train. 培养 = to cultivate/foster. 栽培 = 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