Mnemonic comic for 上
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Mnemonic symbol: as in the movie "Up", someone will be using lots of balloons to send something on a long journey. Sherlock Holmes (sh) prepares to take off in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). He fixed a lot of balloons (上) to a flute (一), on which he plans to sit during his journey. At this moment the flute is only held back by the 90 degree corner clamp (丄) which is fixing it to the ground.
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All translations for 上
used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
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(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above
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上 character breakdown
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
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radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
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vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
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two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
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Character component without intrinsic meaning
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old variant of 上[shang4]
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Characters with 上 as component
to block / to be stuck / to be wedged / customs station / a clip / a fastener / a checkpost / Taiwan pr. [ka3]
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to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4] / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3]) / cassette
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to stop / to prohibit / until / only
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to yield / to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) / by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
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relatives; kin / grief; sorrow / battle-axe
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variant of 戚[qi1] / grief / sorrow
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variant of 慼|戚[qi1]
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archaic variant of 菽[shu1], beans and peas / archaic variant of 叔[shu1], uncle
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uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
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nervous
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Words with 上
of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom) / the best thing to do is leave
see 三十六計，走為上策|三十六计，走为上策[san1 shi2 liu4 ji4 , zou3 wei2 shang4 ce4]
three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom) / spare the rod, spoil the child
to make a terrible scene (idiom) / to throw a tantrum
to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom) / once bitten, twice shy
Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹餘章|曹余章[Cao2 Yu2 zhang1]
to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint / fig. conspiring to defraud
see 一條繩上的螞蚱|一条绳上的蚂蚱[yi1 tiao2 sheng2 shang4 de5 ma4 zha5]
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