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cultivate
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingバイ
Kun readingつちか.う

Meanings

  1. cultivateRtK
    ますHe grows rice.tatoeba
    バラいるHe is cultivating roses.tatoeba
  2. foster
  1. to cultivate
  2. to foster

Radicals and components

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How it's built

Mnemonic (RtK)

soil () · dirt () · ground () · muzzle · vase · stand up () · mouth ()

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 516

Compound words

茶はインドで広く栽されている。
Tea is widely grown in India.tatoeba
組織養の視点からは、この実験の環境はもっと厳密に規定されるべきである。
From the viewpoint of tissue culture, the environment for this experiment should be more rigidly defined.tatoeba

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