Advocate in Chinese
to advocate · HSK 5
提倡
- 提 to lift
- 倡 to advocate
学校提倡学生多读书。 The school encourages students to read more.
Other ways to say advocate
More words with 提 or 倡
How do you say advocate in Chinese?
Advocate in Chinese is 提倡 (tí chàng). You can also say 主张 (zhǔ zhāng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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