HSK 6 · Verbs

栽培 zāipéi “to cultivate” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 栽培 means

  1. to cultivate
  2. to grow
  3. to train (people)
  4. to train
  5. to educate
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to patronise

How to say 栽培

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale栽zāi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale培péi2nd tone, rising

栽培 in a sentence

  1. 他们想栽培新品种的米来增加粮食生产。

    Tāmen xiǎng zāipéi xīn pǐnzhǒng de mǐ lái zēngjiā liángshi shēngchǎn.

    They want to grow new varieties of rice to increase food production.

    Sentence #339601 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 栽培 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 栽 (zāi) drawn as one shape
栽zāito plant; to grow

栽 is a single shape of 10 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 培 (péi) with each of its parts in a different colour
培péito bank up with earth
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 咅to spit out · pǒuSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 咅 (pǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with péi.

How to write 栽培

栽 10 strokes · 培 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

栽培 (zāipéi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 栽培 (zāipéi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 栽培

Words with 培

培养péiyǎng · to cultivate培训péixùn · to train培育péiyù · to cultivate

More words: Common Verbs

约束yuēshù · to restrain孕育yùnyù · to nurture砸zá · to smash宰zǎi · to slaughter遭受zāoshòu · to suffer糟蹋zāotà · to waste遭殃zāoyāng · to suffer disaster遭遇zāoyù · to encounter

FAQs

栽培 (zāipéi) means “to cultivate” or “to grow”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zāipéi: zāi with a 1st tone, then péi with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 栽培 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zaipei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 栽培 from the suggestions. Typing zaipei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
栽培 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.