to bank up with earth / to cultivate (lit. or fig.) / to train (people)

= + : Pinocchio (p) has been cultivating (培) a big compost heap in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2). He uses his own poo-poo (咅), which is just humus, and earthed it up in a compartment made of earth (土).

培 character breakdown

pooh / pah / bah / (today used as a phonetic component in 部[bu4], 倍[bei4], 培[pei2], 剖[pou1] etc)

= + : Pinocchio (p) ate too many mandarins (口), so he has to make a big poo-poo (咅) into a vase (立) in the outhouse (ou3). It is very stinky, so all other visitors exclaim "bah!" (咅) as they pass the vase.
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.

Characters with 培 as component

培 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 培

to grow plants hydroponically
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Jon Huntsman, Jr. (1960-), US politician, Governor of Utah 2005-2009, Ambassador to China 2009-2011
Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), educationist and politician, president of Peking University 1917-27
(of a medical graduate) to undertake standardized training (as a resident doctor in a hospital) (abbr. for 規範化培訓|规范化培训[gui1 fan4 hua4 pei2 xun4])
Tan Xinpei (1847-1917), noted opera actor

Sentences with 培

培 currently does not appear in any sentence.