上旬
shàng xún
Pinyin

Definition

上旬
 - 
shàng xún
  1. first third of a month

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上
shǎng
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 classifier: 个 gè
晚上
wǎn shang
  1. 1 evening
  2. 2 night
  3. 3 classifier: 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

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
三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
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

Sample Sentences

上旬，中旬，下旬
shàngxún ，zhōngxún ，xiàxún
first ten days of the month, middle ten days of the month, last ten days of the month
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比如说，公司在开会的时候，上旬我们要做什么什么，然后中旬要做什么什么，下旬要做什么什么。
bǐrú shuō ，gōngsī zài kāihuì de shíhou ，shàngxún wǒmen yào zuò shénme shénme ，ránhòu zhōngxún yào zuò shénme shénme ，xiàxún yào zuò shénme shénme 。
For example, when a company is having a meeting. The first ten days of the month we have to...etc, etc. After that, during the middle ten days of the month, we have to do...etc, etc. And, the last ten days of the month, we have to...etc, etc.
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