• 835th most frequent character
  • Adds ~0.02% to your reading coverage
  • 3 dictionary entries
  • Appears in 65 words
  • Component in 1 character

Decomposition

1Once
2Radical
3Graphical

Pinyin & Meaning

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

Pronunciation Clues

There are no phonetic clues for this character.
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Appears In

also appears in:

Example Words

Common

升级 (升級)
提升 (提昇)

Uncommon

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

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  • 1628th most frequent character
  • Adds <0.01% to your reading coverage
  • 1 dictionary entry
  • Appears in 39 words
  • Component in 1 character

Decomposition

1Once
2Radical
3Graphical

Pinyin & Meaning

1. qiān (qian1)to move • to shift • to change (a position or location etc) • to promote

Pronunciation Clues

1. Pronunciation clue for qiān (qian1)The component is pronounced as 'qiān' (qian1). It has the exact same pronunciation as the character.
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Appears In

also appears in:

Example Words

Common

升迁 (升遷)
拆迁 (拆遷)
变迁 (變遷)
迁就 (遷就)
迁徙 (遷徙)

Uncommon

司马迁 (司馬遷)
乔迁 (喬遷)
乔迁之喜 (喬遷之喜)
宿迁 (宿遷)
搬迁 (搬遷)
见异思迁 (見異思遷)
迁安 (遷安)
迁怒 (遷怒)
迁移 (遷移)

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Decomposition Levels:
Level 1 - Once: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2 - Radical: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3 - Graphical: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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