Dictionary › 栽培

栽培

zāi péi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

栽培 (zāi péi) means "to grow; to cultivate; to train". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 栽培 means

1. to grow
2. to cultivate
3. to train
4. to educate
5. to patronize

The characters in 栽培

• 栽zāito plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb
• 培péito bank up with earth; to cultivate (lit. or fig.); to train (people)

Example sentences

• 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 increase food production by growing new kinds of rice.

Where 栽培 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cuán–zàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zāi péi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.