提前 tíqián▶ di muka

Stroke order

提前 is written in 21 strokes across 2 characters.

• 提 — 12 strokes
• 前 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. to shift to an earlier date
2. to do sth ahead of time
3. in advance

Related words

• 提membawa
• 提供menyediakan
• 提醒mengingatkan
• 从前sebelum
• 以前sebelum
• 前途masa depan

提前 is pronounced tíqián and means “di muka”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 提前 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.