街上
jiē shang
Pinyin

Definition

街上
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jiē shang
  1. on the street
  2. in town

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上
shǎng
  1. 1 see 上聲|上声[shǎng shēng]
上班
shàng bān
  1. 1 to go to work
  2. 2 to be on duty
  3. 3 to start work
  4. 4 to go to the office
早上
zǎo shang
  1. 1 early morning
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
晚上
wǎn shang
  1. 1 evening
  2. 2 night
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
  4. 4 in the evening
上下
shàng xià
  1. 1 up and down
  2. 2 top and bottom
  3. 3 old and new
  4. 4 length
  5. 5 about
上来
shàng lái
  1. 1 to come up
  2. 2 to approach
  3. 3 (verb complement indicating success)
上传
shàng chuán
  1. 1 to upload
上午
shàng wǔ
  1. 1 morning
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
上去
shàng qù
  1. 1 to go up
上台
shàng tái
  1. 1 to rise to power (in politics)
  2. 2 to go on stage (in the theater)
上司
shàng si
  1. 1 boss
  2. 2 superior
上场
shàng chǎng
  1. 1 on stage
  2. 2 to go on stage
  3. 3 to take the field
上天
shàng tiān
  1. 1 Heaven
  2. 2 Providence
  3. 3 God
  4. 4 the day before
  5. 5 the sky above
  6. 6 to fly to the sky
  7. 7 to take off and fly into space
  8. 8 to die
  9. 9 to pass away
上学
shàng xué
  1. 1 to go to school
  2. 2 to attend school
上市
shàng shì
  1. 1 to hit the market (of a new product)
  2. 2 to float (a company on the stock market)
上帝
Shàng dì
  1. 1 God
上床
shàng chuáng
  1. 1 to go to bed
  2. 2 (coll.) to have sex
上升
shàng shēng
  1. 1 to rise
  2. 2 to go up
  3. 3 to ascend
上映
shàng yìng
  1. 1 to show (a movie)
  2. 2 to screen
上架
shàng jià
  1. 1 to put goods on shelves
  2. 2 (of a product) to be available for sale

Idioms (20)

一哭二闹三上吊
yī kū èr nào sān shàng diào
  1. 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
  2. 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
  1. 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
  3. 3 people who will sink or swim together
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当，学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
  1. 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
上不了台面
shàng bù liǎo tái miàn
  1. 1 better kept under the table (idiom)
  2. 2 not to be disclosed
  3. 3 too inferior to show in public
上不得台盘
shàng bù dé tái pán
  1. 1 too uncouth to appear in public (idiom)
  2. 2 unfit for a public role
上天入地
shàng tiān rù dì
  1. 1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to go to great lengths
  3. 3 to search heaven and earth
上天无路，入地无门
shàng tiān wú lù , rù dì wú mén
  1. 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
  3. 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation
上有天堂，下有苏杭
shàng yǒu tiān táng , xià yǒu Sū Háng
  1. 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策，下有对策
shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè
  1. 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
上梁不正下梁歪
shàng liáng bù zhèng xià liáng wāi
  1. 1 lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
上气不接下气
shàng qì bù jiē xià qì
  1. 1 out of breath (idiom)
  2. 2 to gasp for air
上行下效
shàng xíng xià xiào
  1. 1 subordinates follow the example of their superiors (idiom)
上贼船
shàng zéi chuán
  1. 1 lit. to board a pirate ship (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to associate with criminals
不要在一棵树上吊死
bù yào zài yī kē shù shàng diào sǐ
  1. 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
  2. 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
世上无难事，只怕有心人
shì shàng wú nán shì , zhǐ pà yǒu xīn rén
  1. 1 there is nothing the determined person can't accomplish (idiom)
  2. 2 persistence will overcome
力争上游
lì zhēng shàng yóu
  1. 1 to strive for mastery (idiom); aiming for the best result
  2. 2 to have high ambitions
包在我身上
bāo zài wǒ shēn shang
  1. 1 leave it to me (idiom)
  2. 2 I'll take care of it

Sample Sentences

没错吧，这样的男生一定家教很好，温文尔雅，又懂得保持身材。可是却真是不好找啊，现在往街上一站，满眼都是土肥圆。
méicuò ba ，zhèyàng de nánshēng yīdìng jiājiào hěn hǎo ，wēnwéněryǎ ，yòu dǒngde bǎochí shēncái 。kěshì què zhēn shì bù hǎo zhǎo ā ，xiànzài wǎng jiēshang yī zhàn ，mǎnyǎn dōu shì tǔ féi yuán 。
I would say so! This kind of man will have come from a good background and will be cultured and refined, as well as understanding how to maintain their figure. But they are quite hard to come by. Now if you go on to the street, there are UFRs as far as the eye can see.
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买咖啡呀。没看到吗，门口咖啡店的队都排到街上了。
mǎi kāfēi ya 。méi kàndào ma ，ménkǒu kāfēidiàn de duì dōu pái dào jiēshang le 。
To buy coffee. Can’t you see, the queue to the coffee shop has stretched to the street.
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街猫要住在街上，很可怜。
jiē māo yào zhùzài jiēshang ，hěn kělián 。
Street cats have to live on the street, poor cats!
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浓缩的才是精华嘛！对了，有人说在街上看到两个人打架，十有八九是北方人，您觉得呢？
nóngsuō de cáishì jīnghuá ma ！duìle ，yǒu rén shuō zài jiēshang kàndào liǎng ge rén dǎjià ，shíyǒubājiǔ shì běifāngrén ，nín juéde ne ？
Distilled down to the very essence, right? By the way, some people say that if you see two people fighting on the street, eight or nine times out of ten they're northerners. What do you think?
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去街上派发小样。
qù jiēshang pàifā xiǎoyàng 。
Give out samples on the street.
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街上很热闹，有商店，有书店，还有学校等等。
jiē shang hěn rènao ，yǒu shāngdiàn ，yǒu shūdiàn ，háiyǒu xuéxiào děngdeng 。
The streets were very lively - there were shops, bookstores and schools, etc.
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