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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
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  *伤* | 伤* | *伤
to injure / injury / wound
HSK 3
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  *赏* | 赏* | *赏
to bestow (a reward) / to give (to an inferior) / to hand down / a reward (bestowed by a superior) / to appreciate (beauty)
HSK 4
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  *尚* | 尚* | *尚
still / yet / to value / to esteem
HSK 7-9
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  *上* | 上* | *上
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  *商* | 商* | *商
Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC) / surname Shang
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  *商* | 商* | *商
commerce / merchant / dealer / to consult / 2nd note in pentatonic scale / quotient (as in 智商, intelligence quotient)
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  *汤* | 汤* | *汤
rushing current
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  *熵* | 熵* | *熵
entropy (character created in 1923)
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  *殷* | 殷* | *殷
surname Yin / dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟 in present-day Henan
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  *尚* | 尚* | *尚
surname Shang
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  *殇* | 殇* | *殇
to die in childhood / war dead
Daji (c. 11th century BC), concubine of the last Shang dynasty king Zhou Xin 紂辛|纣辛
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  *阮* | 阮* | *阮
surname Ruan / small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province
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  *纣* | 纣* | *纣
Zhou, pejorative name given posthumously to the last king of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 (the name refers to a crupper 紂|纣, the piece of horse tack most likely to be soiled by the horse)
ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king / zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes / gluttonous / sumptuous (banquet)
Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国, whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝
final name of the Shang dynasty after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province
Zhaoge, capital of the Shang dynasty 商朝 / Zhaoge town in Qi county 淇縣|淇县, Hebi 鶴壁|鹤壁, Henan
the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC)
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  *裳* | 裳* | *裳
used in 衣裳
Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC)
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  *晌* | 晌* | *晌
part of the day / midday
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
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  *觞* | 觞* | *觞
feast / goblet
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  *墒* | 墒* | *墒
plowed earth / soil moisture / furrow
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  *绱* | 绱* | *绱
to sole a shoe
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  *丄* | 丄* | *丄
old variant of
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  *垧* | 垧* | *垧
unit of land area (equivalent to 10 or 15 mǔ 畝|亩 in parts of northeast China, but only 3 or 5 mǔ in northwest China)
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  *蠰* | 蠰* | *蠰
Cerambyx rugicollis
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  *隞* | 隞* | *隞
Ao, Shang Dynasty capital (northeast part of modern day Zhengzhou, Henan)
form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire
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  *埫* | 埫* | *埫
variant of / Taiwan pr. [chong3]
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  *尙* | 尙* | *尙
variant of , still / yet / to value / to esteem
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  *謪* | 謪* | *謪
to discuss (old variant of )
Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
Fu Hao (c. 1200 BC), or Lady Hao, female Chinese general of the late Shang Dynasty 商朝
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  *鞝* | 鞝* | *鞝
variant of 緔|绱
Jizi, legendary sage from end of Shang dynasty (c. 1100 BC), said to have opposed the tyrant Zhou 紂|纣, then ruled ancient Korea in the Zhou dynasty
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  *漡* | 漡* | *漡
old variant of 湯|汤
Wu Ding (c. 14th century BC), legendary founder and wise ruler of Shang dynasty
The Book of Lord Shang, Legalist text of the 4th century BC
Zhou Xin (c. 11th century BC), last king of the Shang dynasty
the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣|杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence
Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國|秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination
Fu Shuo (c. 14th century BC), legendary sage and principal minister of Shang ruler Wu Ding
three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
Emperor Xin, last ruler of Shang (11th Century BC), famous as a tyrant
Dijun, Shang dynasty protector God, possibly same as legendary Emperor 帝嚳|帝喾
Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤, of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王
King Zhou of Shang (11th century BC), notorious as a cruel tyrant
Xia, Shang and Zhou, the earliest named Chinese dynasties
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
Emperor Shang of Tang, reign name of fifth Tang emperor Li Chongmao 李重茂 (c. 695-715), reigned 710
Shang Tang (1646-? BC), legendary founder of the Shang Dynasty
Di Yi (died 1076 BC), Shang dynasty king, reigned 1101-1076 BC
Li Chongmao, personal name of fifth Tang emperor Shang 唐殤帝|唐殇帝 (c. 695-715), reigned 710
King Wu of Zhou 周武王 overthrows tyrant Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王
white pottery (of Shang Dynastry 16-11th century BC)


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