培

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

11 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,484 U+57F9

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

土 (semantic, “earth”) + 咅 (phonetic, pǒu)

components: 土咅

cultivate · Heisig RSH #483

muzzle + 土 soil

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 咅

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 咅 (pǒu) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
咅 sound component	pǒu	to spit out
部	bù	department, ministry; division, unit; part, section
陪	péi	to accompany, to be with, to keep company
剖	pōu	to bisect, to dissect, to slice
赔	péi	to compensate, to pay damages, to suffer a loss
菩	pú	herb, aromatic plant
焙	bèi	to bake, to roast; to dry by the fire
涪	fú	a river in Sichuan province
碚	bèi	suburb
瓿	bù	vase, pot, jar
掊	póu	to extract; to injure
踣	bó	stiff, corpse-like; rigor mortis
醅	pēi	unstrained spirits
锫	péi	berkelium

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
法兰西斯·培根	Fǎ lán xī sī · Péi gēn	Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
安培小时	ān péi xiǎo shí	ampere-hour (Ah)
水培法	shuǐ péi fǎ	hydroponics
弗兰西斯·培根	Fú lán xī sī · Péi gēn	Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
恩培多克勒	Ēn péi duō kè lēi	Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
安培表	ān péi biǎo	ammeter
安培计	ān péi jì	ammeter
细胞培养器	xì bāo péi yǎng qì	cell cultivator
微安培	wēi ān péi	microampere
定向培育	dìng xiàng péi yù	directed breeding
培养基	péi yǎng jī	culture medium
水培	shuǐ péi	to grow plants hydroponically
安培	ān péi	(loanword) ampere
组织培养	zǔ zhī péi yǎng	tissue culture, esp. plant tissue culture
细胞培养	xì bāo péi yǎng	cell culture
培亚	Péi yà	Praia, capital of Cape Verde (Tw)
森林培育	sēn lín péi yù	forestry; silviculture
培林	péi lín	(mechanical) bearing (loanword) (Tw)
教培	jiào péi	education and training (abbr. for 教育培訓\|教育培训[jiao4 yu4 pei2 xun4])
通识培训	tōng shí péi xùn	general culture