zāi​péi HSK7

cultivate

zāi to cultivate

Components

Sound component
spear
Meaning component
tree

tree

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsoj[ts]ˤəplant (v.)
Zhengzhangʔslɯː
zlɯːs

說文解字

築牆長版也。从木𢦔聲。《春秋傳》曰:“楚圍蔡,里而𣒭。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

péi 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