培 (péi): to cultivate, to train
培 (péi) is a Chinese character meaning “to cultivate, to train.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 土 (semantic) and 咅 (phonetic). It ranks #1150 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 培 earth. Its radical form 土 (earth) appears in many related characters such as 在 (zài, to exist), 地 (dì, earth, ground), 场 (chǎng, field, place).
Definitions
- to cultivate, to train
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 培
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 培根noun | péi gēn | (loanword) bacon |
| 戈培尔proper-noun | gē péi ěr | Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician |
| 培训班noun | péi xùn bān | training class |
| 栽培verb | zāi péi | to grow |
| 培养皿noun | péi yǎng mǐn | Petri dish |
| 安培proper-noun | ān péi | (loanword) ampere |
| 培植verb | péi zhí | to cultivate |
| 培养液noun | péi yǎng yè | culture fluid (in biological lab.) |
| 堪培拉proper-noun | kān péi lā | Canberra, capital of Australia |
| 培养基noun | péi yǎng jī | culture medium |
| 水培verb | shuǐ péi | to grow plants hydroponically |
| 无土栽培 | wú tǔ zāi péi | soilless cultivation (e.g. hydroponics) |
| 庞培 | páng péi | Pompeium, Roman town in Bay of Naples destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius in 79 |
| 安培小时 | ān péi xiǎo shí | ampere-hour (Ah) |
| 水培法 | shuǐ péi fǎ | hydroponics |
培 appears in 48 compound words: 31 as the first character, 33 as the last, and 35 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 培 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
公司非常重视员工培训，每年都会安排多次学习机会。
Gōngsī fēicháng zhòngshì yuángōng péixùn, měinián dōu huì ānpái duō cì xuéxí jīhuì.
The company attaches great importance to employee training and arranges multiple learning opportunities every year.
慈济大学、门诺医院奖助学子 培育东台湾护理师
cí jì dà xué , mén nuò yī yuàn jiǎng zhù xué zǐ péi yù dōng tái wān hù lǐ shī
Tzu Chi University and Mennonite Hospital scholarship to train nurses in Eastern Taiwan
“要么他走,要么我们下台” 邱培栋:阿占巴基必须辞职
yāo má tā zǒu , yāo má wǒ men xià tái 邱 péi dòng ā zhàn bā jī bì xū cí zhí
"Either he leaves, or we step down" Qiu Peidong: Azam Bakri must resign
...57周年 魏家祥:秉持“超越教育”理念栽培社会栋梁
. . . zhōu nián wèi jiā xiáng bǐng chí chāo yuè jiào yù lǐ niàn zāi péi shè huì dòng liáng
...57th Anniversary: Wei Jiaxiang: Cultivating Pillars of Society Through the "Beyond Education" Philosophy
師培公費生違約 恐賠百萬
師 péi gōng 費 shēng 違 約 kǒng 賠 bǎi 萬
Teacher training and publicly-funded students default and may lose millions
... 万名教师免费提供 Gemini AI 培训
. . . wàn míng jiào shī miǎn fèi tí gōng péi xùn
Free Gemini AI training for 10,000 teachers
你要培根还是要香肠?
Nǐ yào péigēn háishi yào xiāngcháng?
Would you like bacon or sausage?
他们想栽培新品种的米来增加粮食生产。
Tāmen xiǎng zāipéi xīn pǐnzhǒng de mǐ lái zēngjiā liángshi shēngchǎn.
They want to increase food production by growing new kinds of rice.
澳大利亚的首都是堪培拉，不是墨尔本。
àodàlìyà de shǒudū shì Kānpéilā, bù shì Mò'ěrběn.
The capital of Australia is Canberra, not Melbourne.
培养政治意识要花费时间。
Péiyǎng zhèngzhì yìshí yào huāfèi shíjiān.
Developing political awareness takes time.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 土 (earth) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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