上街
shàng jiē
Pinyin

Definition

上街
 - 
shàng jiē
  1. to go onto the streets
  2. to go shopping

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
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

反对核电的声音随着日本事故的发生再次响亮起来。数万德国人走上街头，要求政府立即关闭所有核电站”。
fǎnduì hédiàn de shēngyīn suízhe Rìběn shìgù de fāshēng zàicì xiǎngliàng qǐlái 。shùwàn Déguórén zǒushàng jiētóu ，yāoqiú zhèngfǔ lìjí guānbì suǒyǒu hédiànzhàn ”。
"Following the accident in Japan, the voice of opposition to nuclear power is resounding once again. Thousands of Germans have taken to the streets demanding that their government close all nuclear power plants at once."
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