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提高

tígāo

to improve; to raise

A person raising a flag
Memory picture

Characters in this word

提 tí

Strokes
12
Radical
扌 — hand
Made of
扌 hand 是 to be
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

高 gāo

Strokes
10
Radical
高 — tall, lofty
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 我要提高中文。 Wǒ yào tí gāo Zhōng wén. I want to improve my Chinese.
  • 成绩提高了。 Chéng jì tí gāo le. The grades improved.
  • 多练能提高。 Duō liàn néng tí gāo. More practice can help you improve.

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