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提

2 readings · tap one to hear it

to carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward; to mention; to raise (an issue); upwards character stroke; lifting brush stroke (in painting); scoop for measuring liquid

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HSK 3.0
Level 2
Old HSK
Level 3
Strokes
12
Radical
手 +9
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
提
Common rank
#328
Unicode
U+63D0

Sound it out + = · + =

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 提 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

扌 meaning “hand” + 是 sound ( shì )

Components 扌 是

How to remember it

bring up · Heisig RSH #598

fingers + 是 be

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 提

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
特提斯海 Tè tí sī Hǎi Tethys (pre-Cambrian ocean)
一字不提 yī zì bù tí to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
提尔市 Tí ěr Shì Tyre (Lebanon)
提头儿 tí tóu r to give a lead
提克里特 Tí kè lǐ tè Tikrit
达尔马提亚 Dá ěr mǎ tí yà Dalmatia, Croatian region on the eastern coast of Adriatic Sea
安提法 ān tí fǎ antifa (loanword)
马提尼克 Mǎ tí ní kè Martinique (French Caribbean island)
阿提拉 Ā tí lā Attila (406-453), Hun emperor, known as the scourge of God
布拉提斯拉瓦 Bù lā tí sī lā wǎ (Tw) Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
大前提 dà qián tí major premise
提子 tí zǐ to capture stones (in Go)
提子 tí zi grape; raisin
普拉提斯 Pǔ lā tí sī see 普拉提[Pu3 la1 ti2]
提心 tí xīn worry
提尔 Tí ěr Tyre (Lebanon)
提花 tí huā Jacquard weave (machine weaving leaving protruding pattern)
提多书 Tí duō shū Epistle of St Paul to Titus
手提 shǒu tí portable
提手 tí shǒu a handle

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 是 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
是 sound part shì to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
题 tí forehead; headline, title; theme
匙 chí spoon; surname
堤 dī dike
醍 tí essential oil of butter
踶 dì paw
鞮 dī leather shoes
鳀 tí anchovy
缇 tí orange-red silk; red, brown