1. 升
  2. 起

升

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  1. 升 is the 835th most frequent character.
  2. 升 has 3 dictionary entries.
  3. 升 appears as a character in 42 words.
  4. 升 appears as a component in 1 character.

Decomposition:

Once :
升 => 艹, ㇒
Radical :
升 => 艹 (grass), ㇒ (N/A)
Graphical :
升 => 艹, ㇒

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. sheng1 - to raise/to hoist/to promote/metric liter (also written 公升)/measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗
  2. sheng1 - ascend/peaceful
  3. sheng1 - variant of 升[sheng1]

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. There are no phonetic clues for this character.

Example Words:

High Frequency

升 
升级 (升級)
提升 (提昇)

Medium Frequency

上升 (上昇)
升温 (升溫)
升华 (升華)
升起 
升迁 (升遷)
回升 
升值 (昇值)
升高 (昇高)
毫升 
直升机 (直升機)
飙升 (飆升)
高升 

Appears In:

升 also appears in:
飛

起

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  1. 起 is the 75th most frequent character.
  2. 起 has 1 dictionary entry.
  3. 起 appears as a character in 140 words.
  4. 起 appears as a component in 0 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
起 => 走, 己
Radical :
起 => 走 (run), 己 (oneself)
Graphical :
起 => 一, 丨, 一, 龰, 匚, 乚

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. qi3 - to rise/to raise/to get up/to set out/to start/to appear/to launch/to initiate (action)/to draft/to establish/to get (from a depot or counter)/verb suffix, to start/(before place or time) starting from/classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance/classifier for groups: batch, group

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. Pronunciation clue for 起 (qi3): The component 己 is pronounced as 'ji3'. It has the same pinyin final.

Example Words:

High Frequency

一起 
发起 (發起)
起 
起来 (起來)
起床 

Medium Frequency

了不起 
升起 
在一起 
对不起 (對不起)
引起 
想起 
拿起 
提起 
早起 
比起 
起码 (起碼)
起身 
起飞 (起飛)
起点 (起點)
Decomposition Levels:
Level 1: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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