(tí) - to carry, to lift, to mention, to raise in Mandarin
tíTraditional: 提
Translation
to carry, to lift, to mention, to raise
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the hand radical 扌 (shǒu, hand) for the action of lifting and 是 (shì) as the phonetic element. It covers carrying by hand and, figuratively, raising a topic.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 扌(hand) + 是 (shì, phonetic)
Stroke order
提
Examples
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He is carrying a large suitcase.
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Do not mention this matter again.
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I would like to raise a question.
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Please help me carry the bag up.
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She put forward a good idea.
提 (tí) means to carry or lift, and figuratively to mention or raise. It is used for holding something by a handle and for bringing up a subject.
Where this fits
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 提.
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