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上
Meaning
- (bound form) up; upper; above; previous
- first (of multiple parts)
- to climb; to get onto; to go up
Example sentence
参见上文。
See above.
The character 上
上 is a mark set above a line: up. It is the top (上边, 楼上), the previous one (上次, 上个月) and the verb for getting onto something — 上车, 上班, 上课 — each of which 下 undoes.
Words containing 上
- 车上 chē shàng on the vehicle
- 地上 dì shang on the ground
- 关上 guān shàng to close (a door)
- 楼上 lóu shàng upstairs
- 路上 lù shang on the road
- 马上 mǎ shàng at once
- 上班 shàng bān to go to work
- 上边 shàng bian the top
- 上车 shàng chē to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc)
- 上次 shàng cì last time
- 上课 shàng kè to go to class
- 上网 shàng wǎng to go online
- 上午 shàng wǔ morning
- 上学 shàng xué to go to school
- 身上 shēn shang on the body
- 晚上 wǎn shang evening
- 网上 wǎng shàng online
- 早上 zǎo shang early morning
- 上周 shàng zhōu last week
- 天上 tiān shàng the sky; the heavens
- 以上 yǐ shàng that level or higher; that amount or more
- 基本上 jī běn shang basically
- 看上去 kàn shang qu it would appear
- 上来 shàng lái to come up