上层 (上層)
shàng céng
Pinyin

Definition

上层 (上層)
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shàng céng
  1. upper layer

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

shǎng
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
zǎo shang
  1. 1 early morning
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
wǎn shang
  1. 1 evening
  2. 2 night
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 in the evening
shàng xià
  1. 1 up and down
  2. 2 top and bottom
  3. 3 old and new
  4. 4 length
  5. 5 about

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

Sample Sentences

听起来跟我目前的工作性质差异不大,只是多了“跨国”两个字,我当初跟你们联系是希望有更上层楼的机会。
tīng qǐlai gēn wǒ mùqián de gōngzuò xìngzhì chāyì búdà ,zhǐshì duō le “kuàguó ”liǎng gè zì ,wǒ dāngchū gēn nǐmen liánxì shì xīwàng yǒu gèngshàngcénglóu de jīhuì 。
It sounds like it's not that different in nature from my current position, it just differs in the addition of the word "multinational." When I first reached out to you, it was because I wanted a higher level position.