1 see also: 上声 shǎng shēng

1 Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪[Hù]

1 to go to work

2 to be on duty

3 to start work

4 to go to the office

1 mouth

2 classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)

3 classifier for bites or mouthfuls

1 to take along with one

1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)

2 to throw a tantrum

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

1 one stumble, unable to rise (idiom); a setback leading to total collapse

2 ruined at a stroke

3 unable to recover after a minor hitch

1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)

2 spare the rod, spoil the child

1 (idiom) reluctant to speak about it

2 tight-lipped