Chinese Character Wiki
提

tí

hold in hand

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

是 sound component

是  Sound component

shì

  

is

Evolution

提 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
提 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
提 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

提  

tí

hold in hand; lift in hand; 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

Most common words with 提
Freq.
Word
Meaning

提供

to offer

提

to lift

提高

to raise

提出

to propose

提醒

to remind

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤe

dej

tí

lift, grasp


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 89.7325% of movies

311th most common character in movies

196th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+63D0

Shuowen

“提，挈也。从手，是聲。”


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