HSK 5 · Verbs

升 shēng “to rise” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 升 means

  1. to rise
  2. to go up
  3. to be promoted
  4. litre
  5. to ascend
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to promote
  • to elevate
  • unit of dry measure for grain

How to say 升

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale升shēng1st tone, high and level

升 in a sentence

  1. 太阳升起来了。

    Tàiyáng shēng qǐlai le.

    The sun is rising.

    Sentence #2188401 from Tatoeba

  2. 他升职了。

    Tā shēngzhí le.

    He got a promotion.

    Sentence #805216 from Tatoeba

  3. 这个瓶子可以装两升热水。

    Zhè ge píngzi kěyǐ zhuāng liǎng shēng rèshuǐ.

    This bottle holds two litres of hot water.

    Sentence #343325 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 升 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 升 (shēng) drawn as one shape
升shēngto ascend; to rise

升 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 升

升 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

升 (shēng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 升 (shēng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 升

Words with 升

晋升jìnshēng · to be promoted

More words: Common Verbs

晒shài · to dry in the sun上当shàngdàng · to be fooled舍不得shěbude · to hate to part with伸shēn · to stretch生产shēngchǎn · to produce省略shěnglüè · to leave out失去shīqù · to lose实现shíxiàn · to achieve

FAQs

升 (shēng) means “to rise” or “to go up”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shēng: shēng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 升 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type sheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 升 from the suggestions. Typing sheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
升 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.