péi HSK4

bank up with dirt, cultivate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
earth
Sound component
pǒu to spit out

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangboːʔ
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