shēng
rise
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 and 土 represent the meaning while 升 represents the sound.
Components
Most common words with 陞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to ascend | ||
to rise | ||
to promote | ||
helicopter | ||
to be promoted |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-təŋ | sying | shēng | rise (v.) |
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 | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+965E |
Sources
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