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升

shēng

ascend, rise

Pictograph of a spoon with something inside it. Spoons are used to lift things up.

Evolution

升 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
升 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
升 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
升 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
升 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

升  

shēng

arise, go up; hoist; advance; to ascend; to rise to the rank of; to promote; to hoist; liter; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗[dǒu]

升 (昇) 

shēng

variant of 升[shēng]; to rise in rank

Most common words with 升
Freq.
Word
Meaning

升

to ascend

上升

to rise

提升

to promote

直升机

helicopter

升级

to be promoted

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (2 verified)

昇 陞

Sound component in 2 characters (2 verified)

昇 陞

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-təŋ

sying

shēng

1/10th of a dǒu 斗

*s-təŋ

sying

shēng

rise (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 34.6308% of movies

1061st most common character in movies

837th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Traditional

昇陞

Unicode

U+5347

Shuowen

“升，十龠也。从斗，亦象形。”


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