上(shàng) - up, above, on; to go up; to attend in Mandarin

Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register

The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It

Mandarin Causatives 使 (shǐ), 令 (lìng) and 让 (ràng): Making Someone Feel or Do Something

Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page

Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs

Mandarin Comparatives: 比, 比较, 最, 跟…一样 and How to Say 'More', 'Most', 'Same As'

Mandarin Complements: 得 for Manner, Directional Endings, and How to Attach a Result to a Verb

Compound Directional Complements in Mandarin: Verb + 起来, 下去, 过来, 出来 and Motion Relative to the Speaker

Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It

Figurative Directional Complements in Mandarin: 起来, 下去 and 出来 Beyond Up, Down and Out

Duration Complements in Mandarin (时量补语): How to Say How Long an Action Lasts

The Mandarin Durative 着 (zhe): Marking a State That Continues (门开着, 拿着书, 笑着说)

Mandarin Existential and Presentative Sentences: 有, 出现, 发生 and Why New Things Go After the Verb

Formal Mandarin Connectives: 然而, 因此, 于是 and 尽管 (The Written Register)

Mandarin Four-Character Idioms (四字格): The Shape, Not the List

The Experiential 过 (guò) in Mandarin: Saying You Have Ever Done Something

Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System

The Mandarin 连...都/也 Construction: How to Say 'Even', and Why the Word Has to Move

Mandarin Location and Existence: 在 for Where, 有 for There Is, and the 上/下/里/外 Position Words

Mandarin Numbers, Time, Dates, and Currency: From 1 to 1,000,000, the 二/两 Split, and Time-Before-Verb

Mandarin Possession with 有 (yǒu): To Have

Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)

Mandarin Relative Clauses with 的 (de): How the Modifier Goes Before the Noun

Mandarin Rhetorical Questions: 难道, 不是...吗, 何必 and 岂不

Serial Verb Constructions in Mandarin: 我去商店买东西 and Stacking Verbs in Sequence

The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened

Mandarin Verb-Object Verbs: Why 'To Eat' Is 吃饭 and How It Splits Apart

Mandarin Sentence Structure: Word Order, Topic-Comment and the 把 Construction

The Mandarin 以 (yǐ) Family: 以为, 以及, 以便, 以免, 以来 and 以...为...

Mandarin 之 (zhī): 之一, 之间, 之后, 之中, 总之 and the Written Ancestor of 的