Character: 培
Modern (Beijing) reading: péi
Preclassic Old Chinese: bǝ̄
Classic Old Chinese: bǝ̄
Western Han Chinese: bǝ̄
Eastern Han Chinese: bǝ̄
Early Postclassic Chinese: bǝ̄
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bǝ̄
Late Postclassic Chinese: bǝ̄j
Middle Chinese: boj
English meaning : to bank up with earth [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) окучивать; удобрять; 2) выращивать (напр. кадры); воспитывать; 3) засыпать (напр. огонь)
Comments: For *b- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou pue2, Fuzhou puoi2, Jianou po9. There is also a reading *b(h)ǝ̄ʔ, MC bл́w, Mand. pǒu 'small hill, bank' (identical to 部 q.v.). Viet. has also a colloquial loan from the same source: vùi 'hide in the ground, bank up with earth'.
Radical: 32
Four-angle index: 1224
Vietnamese reading: bồi
