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上山 (shàng shān): meaning and stroke order

上山 (shàng shān) means to climb a hill, to go to the mountains.

上山

Simplified
上山
Traditional
上山 (same form)
Pinyin
shàng shān

Stroke order of 上山

上

  • shǎng used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
  • shàng (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts)
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

山

  • Shān surname Shan
  • shān mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 上山

  1. shàng shān
    • to climb a hill
    • to go to the mountains
    • (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons)
    • to pass away
    • (of the sun or moon) to rise

Radicals of the characters

上
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes
山
Radical 山 (Kangxi radical 46) · 3 strokes · built from 凵 and 丨

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

上山 in our stories

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  • 晋文公后来想起了这件事，十分惭愧，亲自上山去请，可是山高林密，怎么也找不到人。

    Jìn Wéngōng hòulái xiǎng qǐ le zhè jiàn shì shífēn cánkuì qīnzì shàngshān qù qǐng kěshì shān gāo Lín mì zěnme yě zhǎo bú dào rén

    When Duke Wen later remembered, he was deeply ashamed and went up the mountain himself to invite him back, but the mountain was high and the forest dense, and he could not find him.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 上山

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).