升
Meaning
- to ascend; to rise
- to promote; to elevate
- liter
Example sentence
他升职了。
He got a promotion.
The character 升
升 was a grain measure before it was the litre, 毫升. As a verb it rises: 上升 to go up, 升级 to be upgraded, 升职 promoted — and the sun 升起 in the morning.