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U+4E0A, 上
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E0A

[U+4E09]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4E0B]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 1, +2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 卜一 (YM), four-corner 21100, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 76, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13
  • Dae Jaweon: page 145, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 5, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+4E0A
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Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 上, Shang ...

Ideogram (指事): a line above another (contrast (xià)) — up. Originally written as 𠄞, but changed to this form to prevent confusion with (èr).

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tVŋ (top). Cognate with Tibetan སྟེང (steng), Tibetan ཡང་རྩེ (yang rtse, summit; pinnacle) (Bodman, 1980), Mizo zo (to be high), zah (to respect; to revere) (STEDT).

Shijing rimes indicate occasional level tone for pronunciation 2 (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1 is the exopassive of pronunciation 2 with suffix *-s, literally meaning "what has been raised" (Schuessler, 2007). The rising tone in Middle Chinese words with voiced stop initials regularly evolves into departing tone in Mandarin. Pronunciation 3 results from 叶韻 (xiéyùn), i.e. its pronunciation has been artificially changed to preserve rhymes in classical poetry.

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • Changting:
    • shông5 - “high” (of status or quality), “to add; to install”;
    • hung5 - noun suffix indicating direction, surface, scope or aspect (e.g. , , , 原則).

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Definitions

  1. upper part; high position; up
    Antonym: (xià)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) emperor
       huángshàng   emperor; Your/His Majesty
       shèngshàng   emperor; Your/His Majesty
       shàng   imperial edict
  3. on; above
       shùshàng   on the tree
       Bǐ zài zhuōshàng.   The pen is on the desk.
  4. superior; senior; top
  5. preceding; previous; last; former
       shàng yī nián   last year
       shàng   last episode
    世紀世纪   shàng shìjì   last century
  6. first of several (usually two or three) partitions
    Antonyms: , (xià)
    西遊記西游记   Xīyóujì shàng   Journey to the West I
    古漢語中古漢語 [MSC, trad.]
    古汉语中古汉语 [MSC, simp.]
    shànggǔ hànyǔ hé zhōnggǔ hànyǔ [Pinyin]
    Old Chinese and Middle Chinese
  7. within; in; from the standpoint of; according to
    理論理论   zài lǐlùn shàng   according to theory
    這個世界这个世界   zài zhège shìjiè shàng   in this world
    英文沒有相似說法 [MSC, trad.]
    英文没有相似说法 [MSC, simp.]
    Zài Yīngwén shàng méiyǒu xiàngsì de shuōfǎ. [Pinyin]
    There is no similar way of wording in English.
  8. (Hokkien, Teochew) most; extremely
    Alternative form:
Synonyms

Pronunciation 2


Note:
  • sông/shongˋ/song1 - “to go up; to go; to attend” (major reading);
  • sóng/shongˊ/song3 - “to fit; to install; to apply”.

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Definitions

  1. to go up; to ascend
  2. to charge; to advance
       Shàng a!   Charge!
  3. to go to; to leave for (a place) (usually to a more developed place)
    省城   shàng shěngchéng   to go to the province capital
  4. to board; to get on
       Qǐng shàng chē.   Please get into the car.
  5. to serve; to present; to offer
    還有 [MSC, trad.]
    还有 [MSC, simp.]
    Háiyǒu liǎng ge cài méi shàng. [Pinyin]
    There're two dishes that haven't been served.
       Shàng bǐ hé zhǐ lái.   Give me the pen and the paper.
  6. to attend (class, work)
       shàngbān   to go to work
    夜校   shàng yèxiào.   She goes to night school.
  7. to enter (a field); to appear (on stage, TV)
  8. to fit; to install; to apply
    油漆   shàng yóuqī   to apply paint
  9. to screw; to tighten, to twist
  10. (colloquial) short for 上線 (“to go online”)
  11. to connect to; browse (a website)
    谷歌   shàng Gǔgē   to go on Google; to google
  12. (Cantonese) to go north
  13. (Min) to pull upwards or hang with a rope
    [Hokkien]   chhiūⁿ-chúi [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   to draw water from a well
  14. (Southern Min) to grow and attach
    青苔 [Hokkien]   chhiūⁿ chheⁿ-thî [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   to grow moss
  15. (Xiamen Hokkien) to pile up
    [Hokkien]   chhiūⁿ-hòe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   to pile up goods
  16. (vulgar, usually of a male) to fuck; to have intercourse (usually with a female)
  17. Particle following verbs, indicating direction or achievement.
    安排   Ānpái shàng le.   It has been arranged.
  18. 7th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "ascension" (𝌌)
  19. (mahjong, Cantonese) chow; to call a discarded tile to produce a chow
Usage notes
  • When playing mahjong in Cantonese, a player may say this word as a call when forming a chowing another player's discard
Synonyms

Pronunciation 3



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Definitions

  1. (~聲) (Chinese phonetics) rising tone in Chinese phonetics
Usage notes

Due to phonological changes over history, most of the characters historically with rising tone and voiced initials (陽上 / 阳上 (yángshǎng)) are now pronounced with departing tone in most of the dialects, e.g. Mandarin (see 濁上變去 / 浊上变去 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia zh), including the character (MC dzyangX|dzyangH) itself. This pronunciation was created so as to better reflect the nature of the tone.

The tone 陽上 / 阳上 (yángshǎng) is still conserved in some dialects, including Cantonese, Quanzhou Hokkien and Teochew.

See also
More information 平仄 (píngzè), 四角標調法 / 四角标调法 ...
More information 四聲 / 四声 (sìshēng) ...

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (じょう) ()
  • Korean: 상(上) (sang)
  • Vietnamese: thượng (, upper), thướng (, to go up)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note do (1).
  2. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note do (1).

Derived terms

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to sole a shoe”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

Further reading

  • ”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, pages 91, 488.
  • 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, pages 293, 591.
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