上游
shàng yóu
Pinyin

Definition

上游
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shàng yóu
  1. upper reaches (of a river)
  2. upper level
  3. upper echelon
  4. upstream

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
游戏
yóu xì
  1. 1 game
  2. 2 classifier: 场 chǎng
  3. 3 to play

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

没事没事！她只是线上游戏没过关。陈总监，您慢慢来，我们先回去了。
méishì méishì ！tā zhǐshì xiànshàng yóuxì méi guòguān 。Chén zǒngjiān ，nín mànmànlái ，wǒmen xiān huíqu le 。
It's fine, it's fine! She just didn't win an online game she was playing. Ms Chen, take your time, we're going to head back now.
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