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栽培

zāi péi

HSK 6 2-character word

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.