培
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to bank up with earth; to cultivate (lit. or fig.); to train (people)
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
cultivate · Heisig RSH #483
muzzle + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 培
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 法兰西斯·培根 | Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist | |
| 安培小时 | ampere-hour (Ah) | |
| 水培法 | hydroponics | |
| 弗兰西斯·培根 | Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist | |
| 恩培多克勒 | Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher | |
| 安培表 | ammeter | |
| 安培计 | ammeter | |
| 细胞培养器 | cell cultivator | |
| 微安培 | microampere | |
| 定向培育 | directed breeding | |
| 培养基 | culture medium | |
| 水培 | to grow plants hydroponically | |
| 安培 | (loanword) ampere | |
| 组织培养 | tissue culture, esp. plant tissue culture | |
| 细胞培养 | cell culture | |
| 培亚 | Praia, capital of Cape Verde (Tw) | |
| 森林培育 | forestry; silviculture | |
| 培林 | (mechanical) bearing (loanword) (Tw) | |
| 教培 | education and training (abbr. for 教育培訓|教育培训[jiao4 yu4 pei2 xun4]) | |
| 通识培训 | general culture |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 咅 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咅 sound part | to spit out | |
| 部 | department, ministry; division, unit; part, section | |
| 陪 | to accompany, to be with, to keep company | |
| 剖 | to bisect, to dissect, to slice | |
| 赔 | to compensate, to pay damages, to suffer a loss | |
| 菩 | herb, aromatic plant | |
| 焙 | to bake, to roast; to dry by the fire | |
| 涪 | a river in Sichuan province | |
| 碚 | suburb | |
| 瓿 | vase, pot, jar | |
| 掊 | to extract; to injure | |
| 踣 | stiff, corpse-like; rigor mortis | |
| 醅 | unstrained spirits | |
| 锫 | berkelium |