1 see also: 上声 shǎng shēng

1 to go to work

2 to be on duty

3 to start work

4 to go to the office

1 today

2 at the present

3 now

1 half

2 semi-

3 incomplete

4 (after a number) and a half

1 day

2 sky

3 heaven

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)

2 to throw a tantrum

1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)

2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders

1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)

2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse

3 people who will sink or swim together