péi

bank up with dirt, cultivate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

咅 sound component

  Sound component

pǒu

  

to spit out

Evolution

培 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
培 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

péi

bank up with dirt; cultivate; to bank up with earth; to cultivate (lit. or fig.); to train (people)

Most common words with 培
Freq.
Word
Meaning

培养

to cultivate

培训

to cultivate

培育

to train

to bank up with earth

培根

bacon (loanword)