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(tí) - to carry, to lift, to mention, to raise in Mandarin

Traditional: 提

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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

Stroke order for 提

Examples

He is carrying a large suitcase.

Do not mention this matter again.

I would like to raise a question.

Please help me carry the bag up.

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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This word is part of lesson 27.