培植 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

péizhí

cultivate

péi bank up with dirt, cultivate

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 咅 represents the sound.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

咅 Sound component

pǒu to spit out

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	boːʔ
	bɯː

說文解字

《說文》：“培，培墩，土田山川也。从土，咅聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

zhí plant

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 直 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

直 Sound component

zhí straight

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	driH	N-t<r>ək-s	grow, flourish
	driH	m-t<r>ək-s	to plant, set upright
	dzyik	m-tək	to plant; plants

說文解字

《說文》：“植，戶植也。从木，直聲。，或从置。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)