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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 go to class / to attend class / to go to teach a class
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
to go to work / to be on duty / to start work / to go to the office
HSK 1
to rise / to go up / to ascend
HSK 3
morning / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
the top / above / overhead / upwards / the top margin / above-mentioned / those higher up
HSK 1
jacket / upper outer garment / CL:
HSK 3
to go to school / to attend school
HSK 1
to go up
HSK 3
on top of / above-mentioned / also pr. [shang4 mian5]
HSK 3
in fact / in reality / actually / as a matter of fact / de facto / ipso facto
HSK 3
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
to come up / to approach / (verb complement indicating success)
HSK 3
last time
HSK 1
to close (a door) / to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc)
HSK 1
to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc)
HSK 1
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
in fact / in reality / as a matter of fact / in practice
HSK 3
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
to rise / to go up
HSK 5
to rise to power (in politics) / to go on stage (in the theater)
HSK 6
basically / on the whole
HSK 3
last month
HSK 4
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
to put on (clothes etc)
HSK 4
along the way / the whole way / (fig.) the whole time
HSK 6
to go upstairs
HSK 4
higher authorities / superiors / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force)
HSK 1
plus / to put in / to add / to add on / to add into / in addition / on top of that
HSK 5
on stage
HSK 4
the sky; the heavens
HSK 2
early morning / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
God
HSK 6
on the ground / on the floor
HSK 1
boss / superior
HSK 7-9
on the body / at hand / among
HSK 1
upstairs / (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread
HSK 1
online
HSK 1
on the road / on the way; en route
HSK 1
to take up one's post; to go on duty / to take up a job
HSK 7-9
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
ashore / on the riverbank
HSK 5
evening / night / CL: 個|个 / in the evening
HSK 1
to get angry / to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
HSK 7-9
it would appear / it seems (that)
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *上* | 上* | *上
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom) / fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
HSK 7-9
to screen; to show (a movie)
HSK 7-9
aforementioned / above-mentioned
HSK 7-9
the top; the upper part; (its) surface / the authorities; those in charge; the higher-ups
HSK 7-9
to report to one's superiors / to appear in the news / to reply to a letter
HSK 7-9
Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬|沪)
on stage / to go on stage / to take the field
HSK 7-9
to go online; to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc)
to raise (prices) / to adjust upwards
HSK 7-9
upper bound
HSK 7-9
outwardly; superficially; on the face of it
HSK 6
to start and finish work
to appeal (a judicial case) / appeal
HSK 7-9
taken in (by sb's deceit) / to be fooled / to be duped
HSK 6
equally matched / about the same
HSK 7-9
first third of a month
HSK 7-9
(textual) context
study hard and every day you will improve (idiom)
office workers (as social group)
to swarm around / flocking (to see)
at sixes and sevens / perturbed state of mind / in a mess
first (of two parts) / last (week etc) / previous / the above
to obtain / to master / overhand (serve etc) / seat of honor
Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬|沪)
Shanghainese / Shanghai dialect
(coll.) to be fitted with an IUD; (of a doctor) to insert an IUD
listed company
Shanghai University
photogenic / to appear on film or in the media
on earth
to connect (a cable etc) / to hook up (a device) / to resume (a conversation) / to set (a bone)
place above (it) / upper part (of it)
HSK 7-9
to keep up with / to catch up with / to overtake / to chance upon / in time for
HSK 6
(of alcohol, love etc) to go to one's head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head; to capture one's attention / (old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait)
online
to be taken advantage of
Old Chinese (linguistics)
SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) (abbr. for 上海合作組織|上海合作组织)
top-quality
abbr. for 上海汽車工業集團|上海汽车工业集团, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC)
to go onto the streets / to go shopping
to take the bait
to take office / previous (incumbent) / predecessor
HSK 7-9
to go to bed / (coll.) to have sex
the entire nation / the whole country, from the leadership to the rank and file
an upturn / an upward trend
uphill road / slope up / fig. upward trend / progress
to climb a hill / to go to the mountains / (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons) / to pass away / (of the sun or moon) to rise
previous period (week, month or quarter etc)
HSK 7-9
top-quality / top-grade

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