升 (shēng): meaning and stroke order
升 (shēng) means to ascend; to rise, to promote; to elevate, liter.
升
- Simplified
- 升
- Traditional
- 升, 昇, 陞
- Pinyin
- shēng
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Stroke order of 升
升
- shēng to ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate
- shēng to ascend; to rise (variant of 升[sheng1]); to promote; to elevate (variant of 升[sheng1])
- shēng to ascend; to rise (variant of 升[sheng1]); to promote; to elevate (variant of 升[sheng1])
- 4 strokes
- Traditional form: 昇
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Meaning of 升
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shēng
- to ascend; to rise
- to promote; to elevate
- liter
- unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou 斗[dou3])
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shēng
Traditional 昇
- to ascend; to rise (variant of 升[sheng1])
- to promote; to elevate (variant of 升[sheng1])
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shēng
Traditional 陞
- to ascend; to rise (variant of 升[sheng1])
- to promote; to elevate (variant of 升[sheng1])
Radical and structure
- 升
- Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 4 strokes
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.
Words with 升
- 上升 shàng shēng to rise; to go up
- 升起 shēng qǐ to raise; to hoist
- 升高 shēng gāo to raise; to ascend
- 直升机 zhí shēng jī helicopter; CL:架[jia4]
- 升职 shēng zhí to get promoted (at work etc); promotion
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).