shēng
rise
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 升 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 昇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to ascend | ||
to rise | ||
to promote | ||
helicopter | ||
to be promoted |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 34.6308% of movies
1061st most common character in movies
837th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6607 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“昇，日上也。从日，升聲。古只用升。” |
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