培训
péixùn · HSK 4
train
🌱 培 cultivate (earth radical) + 训 instruct (speech radical)
培 = 土 (earth) + 咅, the soil-tending side meaning to nurture or cultivate. 训 = 讠 (speech) + 川, teaching that flows like a river. Together: nurture through instruction — training.
训 — speech radical 讠 (言) + river 川
A semantic-phonetic compound. The 讠 (speech) radical gives the meaning—words used to teach or instruct—while 川 (river) suggests the phonetic and the image of guiding flow. Together 训 means to instruct, admonish, or train, as in channeling someone with words.