提供
tígōng · HSK 4
offer
🤲 提 = lift/raise + 供 = supply; together: to lift up and supply = provide
提 (tí) means to lift or carry by hand; 供 (gōng) means to supply or furnish. The compound literally reads lift-and-supply, which collapses into the English sense of provide, offer, or put up.
提 — hand radical 扌 + 是 (phonetic)
提 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning, since the character originally referred to lifting or carrying something by hand. The right side 是 supplies the sound. From 'lift up' it extended to 'raise (an issue),' 'mention,' and 'bring forward.'
供 — person radical 亻 + 共 (together)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 亻 (person) gives the meaning of human action while 共 (together, gōng) supplies the sound. Originally meaning to present or offer jointly, it extended to 'supply, provide.' A second reading gòng means to make an offering or confess.