上
shàngTraditional: 上
HSK 1
#57 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
up, above, on; to go up; to attend
Stroke order
上
Examples
桌。
The book is on the table.
班铁。
I take the subway to work every day.
楼。
Please go upstairs and wait a moment.
火。
He boarded the train home.
。
The children have gone to school.
Related words
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 上.
上帝shàng dìGod, the Lord马上mǎ shàngimmediately, right away, at once晚上wǎn shàngevening, night身上shēn shàngon the body, on one's person上面shàng miànabove, on top, on the surface早上zǎo shàngmorning (early)事实上shì shí shàngin fact, as a matter of fact看上去kàn shàng qùto look, to seem, to appear上去shàng qùto go up早上好zǎo shàng hǎogood morning
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Grammar articles
- Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register
- Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
- Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It
- Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
- Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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