Illustration: In a family woodworking workshop, a grandparent guides a child's hands as they carefully smooth a small wooden bird. A shelf nearby holds the child's accumulated earlier birds, progressing from rough blocks to increasingly recognizable shapes, all bearing the same distinctive oversized tail.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

培つちかう

tsuchikau

to cultivate, to foster

Example sentences

  1. 友情ゆうじょうを培つちかうのにスポーツは効果的こうかてきだ。

    Sports are effective to cultivate friendship.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 代々だいだい培つちかったノウハウをもって各地かくちの軍事力ぐんじりょくを編成へんせいした。

    Taking advantage of military expertise which they had acquired over many generations, they formed military forces in the provinces.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 当時とうじ培つちかわれた技術ぎじゅつが現代げんだいの弓具制作きゅうぐせいさくの礎いしずえとなっていると言いっても過言かごんではない。

    Skills developed during that period became a foundation for the modern day creation of archery tools.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 培

  • 培cultivate; fosterOnバイKunつちかう

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