to ascend / to rise to the rank of / to promote / to hoist / liter / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗[dou3]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 升降机, shēng jiàng jī, a scissor lift.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) is working on an undercover job in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He is disguised as worker on a scissor lift (升), picking up bananas (丿) from engine's stones. He is always ready to strike and keeps his handcuffs (廾) ready at all times.
variant of 升[sheng1]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 升降机, shēng jiàng jī, a scissor lift.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) is working on an undercover job in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He is disguised as worker on a scissor lift (升), picking up bananas (丿) from engine's stones. He is always ready to strike and keeps his handcuffs (廾) ready at all times.
variant of 升[sheng1]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 升降机, shēng jiàng jī, a scissor lift.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) is working on an undercover job in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He is disguised as worker on a scissor lift (升), picking up bananas (丿) from engine's stones. He is always ready to strike and keeps his handcuffs (廾) ready at all times.

升 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
hands joined

= 丿 + + : Handcuffs. Gitta Giraffe is sitting inside of the engine, her hands tied up with handcuffs. There's a flute as horizontal bar, and attached to either side are a banana and a dinosaur bone, so that she cannot slide off the chain.

Characters with 升 as component

to fly

= 𠃧 + : looks like a rook holding a branch and a stick in its beak with its baby : the mother rook to its baby: “ if yu wanna fly, yu need to learn to jump first then I’ll give yu a TOW BOOST, or maybe I’m gonna gallop fast as a TOUR BUS, skip over obstacles then hurl yu from the top of a HILL, then yu’ll be able to help me pick branches and turn them into sticks to build yur nest.

Looks like a hummingbird. Frankenstein's monster is being pecked by a hummingbird in front of the Eiffel Tower.
variant of 升[sheng1]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 升降机, shēng jiàng jī, a scissor lift.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) is working on an undercover job in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He is disguised as worker on a scissor lift (升), picking up bananas (丿) from engine's stones. He is always ready to strike and keeps his handcuffs (廾) ready at all times.
(used as a surname and in given names)
gallon / quart

Words with 升

to rise / to go up / to ascend
rising (sun, moon etc)
(of an employee) to be promoted to (a higher rank) / (of a student) to enter (a higher grade at school)
lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

Sentences with 升

升 currently does not appear in any sentence.