提名
tímíng · HSK 7
nominate
🗳️ 提 raise + 名 name = put a name forward = nominate; tíming sounds like timing
提 means to raise or put forward, 名 means name. To raise a name is to nominate someone. The sound tíming echoes the English word timing.
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.'
名 — evening 夕 + mouth 口
A compound ideograph: in the dark of evening (夕), one cannot recognize others by sight, so the mouth (口) calls out a name to identify oneself. The original sense of 'name' broadened to include reputation, fame, and a measure word for people.