上

up, on, above; last (上周 last week)

No. 22 most used · 0.46% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 217.

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

A mark above the line: up.

Words

• 上帝

  shàng dì

  God
• 马上

  mǎ shàng

  at once; right away; immediately
• 晚上

  wǎn shang

  evening; night; CL:个
• 身上

  shēn shang

  on the body; at hand; among
• 上面

  shàng miàn

  on top of; above-mentioned; also pr. [shang4 mian5]
• 早上

  zǎo shang

  early morning; CL:个

Sentences

• 上个月是十一月吗？

  shàng gè yuè shì shí yī yuè ma

  Was last month November?
• 她在数学上不如他。

  tā zài shù xué shàng bù rú tā

  She is inferior to him in math.
• 为什么我应该去上学？

  wèi shén me wǒ yīng gāi qù shàng xué

  Why should I go to school?
• 事实上他并不是主管。

  shì shí shàng tā bìng bú shì zhǔ guǎn

  He is actually not the manager.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.