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shàng
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shàng
  1. 1.(bound form) up; upper; above; previous
  2. 2.first (of multiple parts)
  3. 3.to climb; to get onto; to go up
  4. 4.to attend (class or university)
  5. 5.(directional complement) up
  6. 6.(noun suffix) on; above
shǎng
  1. 1.used in 上声[shǎng shēng]

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  1. 1.upper part; high position; up
  2. 2.emperor
  3. 3.on; above
  4. 4.superior; senior; top; uppermost; the highest level
  5. 5.preceding; previous; last; former
  6. 6.first of several (usually two or three) partitions
  7. 7.within; in; from the standpoint of; according to
  8. 8.most; extremely
  9. 9.to go up; to ascend
  10. 10.to charge; to advance
  11. 11.to go to; to leave for (a place) (usually to a more developed place)
  12. 12.to board; to get on
  13. 13.to serve; to present; to offer
  14. 14.to attend (class, work)
  15. 15.to enter (a field); to appear (on stage, TV)
  16. 16.to fit; to install; to apply
  17. 17.to screw; to tighten, to twist
  18. 18.to connect to; browse (a website)
  19. 19.to go north
  20. 20.to pull upwards or hang with a rope

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Etymology

Ideogram (指事): short horizontal above long arc (contrast 下 (xià)). 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.

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