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Kanji Detail for 培 - "cultivate, nurture, foster"
培
- Meaning
培 means "cultivate, nurture, foster."
Cultivate - To prepare and use land for growing plants.
Nurture - To care for and encourage growth.
Foster - To promote development; to raise.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
cultivate; foster
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
bank up with dirt; cultivate
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to bank up with earth; to cultivate (lit. or fig.); to train (people)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to cultivate, to farm; to shore up
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Piling earth around plant roots to make them thicker. Such as 栽培 (cultivate). Also used metaphorically for nurturing talent, meaning receiving benefits like plants receiving cultivation. | 培塿: See "塿."
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