培土

Chinese

		to cultivate; to earth up	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
simp. and trad. (培土)		培	土

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): péitǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄟˊ ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pui⁴ tou²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pôe-thó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: péitǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄟˊ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: péitǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pʻei²-tʻu³
    • Yale: péi-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: peirtuu
    • Palladius: пэйту (pɛjtu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰeɪ̯³⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pui⁴ tou²
    • Yale: pùih tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pui⁴ tou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: pui⁴ tou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuːi̯²¹ tʰou̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pôe-thó͘
    • Tâi-lô: puê-thóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poe'tor
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pue²⁴⁻²² tʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pue¹³⁻²² tʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pue²⁴⁻²² tʰɔ⁵³/

Verb

培土

1. (agriculture) to hill up; to earth up; to bank up

Synonyms

• 培 (literary, or in compounds)
• 培塗／培涂 (Hokkien)
• 培泥 (Zhao'an Hakka)
• 壅土 (yōngtǔ)
• 壅泥 (Taiwanese Hakka)