培

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 咅

Han character

培 (radical 32 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土卜廿口 (GYTR), four-corner 4016₁, composition ⿰土咅)

1. bank up with dirt
2. cultivate

• Cognate characters:
  1. (péi): 陪, 副, 倍
  2. (pǒu): 菩, 瓿

References

• KangXi: page 231, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5195
• Dae Jaweon: page 468, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 457, character 2
• Unihan data for U+57F9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

培 (jyutping pui4, Yale pui4)

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Japanese

Kanji

培 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ばい (bai), べ (be, 呉音), はい (hai, 漢音), ほう (hō, 漢音), ぶ (bu, 呉音)
• Kun: つちかう (tsuchikau)

Compounds

• 培植
• 培養

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Korean

Hanja

培 (hangeul 배, 부, revised bae, bu, McCune-Reischauer pae, pu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

培 (pinyin péi (pei2), pǒu (pou3), Wade-Giles p'ei², p'ou³)

Compounds

• 培土
• 培修
• 培训
• 培养
• 培育
• 培植

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Vietnamese

Han character

培 (bồi, bổi, bòi, bụi, vùi)