升 — Chinese character
升
shēng
to advance; to arise; to hoist, to raise
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Radical
- 24 ⼗ (Ten)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 十
- Japanese
- 升 as a kanji
Common words with 升
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 提升 | tí shēng | to promote (to a higher-ranking position); to lift; to hoist |
| 升级 (升級) | shēng jí | to go up by one grade; to be promoted; to escalate (in intensity) |
| 上升 | shàng shēng | to rise; to go up |
| 直升机 (直升機) | zhí shēng jī | helicopter; measure word: 架 (jià) |
| 直升机 (直昇機) | zhí shēng jī | variant of 直升机 (zhí shēng jī) |
| 晋升 (晉升) | jìn shēng | to promote to a higher position |
| 升高 | shēng gāo | to raise; to ascend |
| 升起 | shēng qǐ | to raise; to hoist |
| 攀升 | pān shēng | to clamber up; (of prices etc) to rise |
| 回升 | huí shēng | to rise again after a fall; to pick up |
| 升温 (升溫) | shēng wēn | to become hot; temperature rise |
| 升华 (升華) | shēng huá | to sublimate; sublimation (physics) |
English words written with 升
升 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 7 · I Ching 5 · Zhuangzi 3
- Analects 3.7
- Analects 10.4
- Analects 10.17
- Analects 11.14
- Analects 14.19
- Analects 17.21
- Analects 19.25
- Hexagram 13
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