培 — Chinese character
培
péi
to cultivate, to farm; to shore up
- Pinyin
- péi
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 土 咅
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 咅
- Japanese
- 培 as a kanji
Common words with 培
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 培训 (培訓) | péi xùn | to cultivate; to train |
| 培养 (培養) | péi yǎng | to cultivate; to breed |
| 培育 | péi yù | to train; to breed |
| 栽培 | zāi péi | to grow; to cultivate |
| 培训班 (培訓班) | péi xùn bān | training class |
| 培根 | péi gēn | (loanword) bacon |
| 培植 | péi zhí | to cultivate; to train |
| 安培 | ān péi | (loanword) ampere |
| 培养基 (培養基) | péi yǎng jī | culture medium |
| 培养液 (培養液) | péi yǎng yè | culture fluid (in biological lab.) |
| 培养皿 (培養皿) | péi yǎng mǐn | Petri dish |
| 组织培养 (組織培養) | zǔ zhī péi yǎng | tissue culture, esp. plant tissue culture |
English words written with 培
培 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.