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提升

tí shēng

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

提升 (tí shēng) means "to promote (to a higher-ranking position); to lift; to hoist; (fig.) to elevate; to raise; to improve". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 提升 means

1. to promote (to a higher-ranking position)
2. to lift; to hoist
3. (fig.) to elevate; to raise; to improve

The characters in 提升

• 提títo carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward
• 升shēngto ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate; liter

Example sentences

• 速度提升。
  Faster.
• 努力提升英文能力。
  Try to polish up your English.
• 创新创新本身就提升了创新。
  Chuàngxīn chuàngxīn běnshēn jiù tíshēng le chuàngxīn.
  Creating creativity itself is improving creativity.
• 我要借机提升我的语言能力。
  Wǒ yào jiè jī tíshēng wǒ de yǔyánnénglì.
  I must take the opportunity to improve my language ability.
• 我想找一种提升记忆力的方法。
  I'd like to find a way to improve my memory.
• 她在国外学习以便提升她的英语。
  Tā zài guówài xuéxí yǐbiàn tíshēng tā de Yīngyǔ.
  She studied abroad in order to brush up her English.

Sounds the same

Read tí shēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 啼声ululation; to howl

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