培
péi HSK4

bank up with dirt, cultivate

培 péi
bank up verb
to heap up earth around the roots or base of a plant

他正在花园里给那些花苗培土。

tā zhèng​zài huā​yuán lǐ gěi nà​xiē huā​miáo péi tǔ.

He is banking up the soil around the flower seedlings in the garden.

cultivate expression
to foster development, nurture plants, or train and educate people

这所学校始终坚持培德育才的教育理念。

zhè suǒ xué​xiào shǐ​zhōng jiān​chí péi dé yù​cái de jiào​yù lǐ​niàn.

The school has always adhered to the educational philosophy of cultivating virtue and nurturing talent.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,152nd most common 124.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,826th most common 26.0 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.68 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
7.95 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+57F9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)