péi
bank up with dirt, cultivate
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 咅 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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 |
|---|---|---|
to cultivate | ||
to cultivate | ||
to train | ||
to bank up with earth | ||
bacon (loanword) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 12.1256% of movies
1826th most common character in movies
1152nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+57F9 |
Shuowen | “培，培墩，土田山川也。从土，咅聲。” |
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