培养 Traditional form: 培養 Pinyin (reading): péiyǎng Definitions: to cultivate to breed to foster to nurture to educate to groom (for a position) education fostering culture (biology) Characters: 培 - to cultivate, to farm; to shore up 养 - to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support Traditional characters: 培 - to cultivate, to farm; to shore up 養 - to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support