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HSK
to go to work / to be on duty / to start work / to go to the office
HSK 1
the top / above / overhead / upwards / the top margin / above-mentioned / those higher up
HSK 1
morning / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
online
HSK 1
upstairs / (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread
HSK 1
at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force)
HSK 1
on the body / at hand / among
HSK 1
to go online / to connect to the Internet / (of a document etc) to be uploaded to the Internet / (tennis, volleyball etc) to move in close to the net
HSK 1
on the road / on the way; en route
HSK 1
evening / night / CL: 個|个 / in the evening
HSK 1
early morning / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
on the ground / on the floor
HSK 1
to close (a door) / to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc)
HSK 1
to go to school / to attend school
HSK 1
to go to class / to attend class / to go to teach a class
HSK 1
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  *上* | 上* | *上
(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above
HSK 1
to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc)
HSK 1
last time
HSK 1
last week
HSK 2
that level or higher; that amount or more / the above-mentioned / (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
HSK 2
the sky; the heavens
HSK 2
on top of / above-mentioned / also pr. [shang4 mian5]
HSK 3
to rise / to go up / to ascend
HSK 3
to go up
HSK 3
to come up / to approach / (verb complement indicating success)
HSK 3
jacket / upper outer garment / CL:
HSK 3
in fact / in reality / actually / as a matter of fact / de facto / ipso facto
HSK 3
it would appear / it seems (that)
HSK 3
in fact / in reality / as a matter of fact / in practice
HSK 3
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
on stage
HSK 4
to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
HSK 4
to go upstairs
HSK 4
to put on (clothes etc)
HSK 4
last month
HSK 4
plus / to put in / to add / to add on / to add into / in addition / on top of that
HSK 5
to rise / to go up
HSK 5
the top and bottom of sth / the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom / to go up and down / before and after (as in 上下文 "context") / (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so / (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦 "harmony between superiors and subordinates") / all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下 "the entire nation") / relative superiority (as in 不相上下 "evenly matched")
HSK 5
higher authorities / superiors / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
ashore / on the riverbank
HSK 5
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
God
HSK 6
to keep up with / to catch up with / to overtake / to chance upon / in time for
HSK 6
to hit the market (of a new product) / to float (a company on the stock market)
HSK 6
to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging
HSK 6
to rise to power (in politics) / to go on stage (in the theater)
HSK 6
can't keep up with / can't catch up with / cannot overtake
HSK 6
taken in (by sb's deceit) / to be fooled / to be duped
HSK 6
along the way / the whole way / (fig.) the whole time
HSK 6
outwardly; superficially; on the face of it
HSK 6
to report to one's superiors / to appear in the news / to reply to a letter
HSK 7-9
aforementioned / above-mentioned
HSK 7-9
to raise (prices) / to adjust upwards
HSK 7-9
to summarize / to sum up
HSK 7-9
upper bound
HSK 7-9
the top; the upper part; (its) surface / the authorities; those in charge; the higher-ups
HSK 7-9
upper reaches (of a river) / upper level / upper echelon / upstream
HSK 7-9
on stage / to go on stage / to take the field
HSK 7-9
upper class
HSK 7-9
place above (it) / upper part (of it)
HSK 7-9
to be out of the question
HSK 7-9
unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
HSK 7-9
to take office / previous (incumbent) / predecessor
HSK 7-9
the emperor / Your majesty the emperor / His imperial majesty
HSK 7-9
to get angry / to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
HSK 7-9
to screen; to show (a movie)
HSK 7-9
to appeal (a judicial case) / appeal
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to make matters even worse / to add insult to injury
HSK 7-9
to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning
HSK 7-9
equally matched / about the same
HSK 7-9
to get into a habit / to become addicted
HSK 7-9
boss / superior
HSK 7-9
can't compare with
HSK 7-9
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom) / fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
HSK 7-9
first third of a month
HSK 7-9
cannot attend to or manage
HSK 7-9
to set foot on / to step on or into
HSK 7-9
to come across (sb) / to run into
HSK 7-9
to catch up with / to keep pace with
HSK 7-9
overall / in general terms
HSK 7-9
previous period (week, month or quarter etc)
HSK 7-9
to run into / to come upon / to meet
HSK 7-9
to take up one's post; to go on duty / to take up a job
HSK 7-9
the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace / (Tw) topless
HSK 7-9
not able to keep up with
HSK 7-9
Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬|沪)
The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize
upper limb
useless (idiom) / worthless / inept
there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom)
to vomit and have diarrhea
(idiom) from bottom to top; from the grass roots up; bottom-up
Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Composite Index
to close / to shut up
to upload
death during sexual intercourse
online
at sixes and sevens / perturbed state of mind / in a mess
desktop
to get into a dispute with

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