上边 (上邊)
shàng bian
Pinyin

Definition

上边 (上邊)
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shàng bian
  1. the top
  2. above
  3. overhead
  4. upwards
  5. the top margin
  6. above-mentioned
  7. those higher up

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

唉，不谈了，人家说好工作就是钱多，事少，离家近，反正之前我是一个都沾不上边。你上一个工作怎么样？
ài ，bù tán le ，rénjiā shuō hǎo gōngzuò jiùshì qián duō ，shì shǎo ，lí jiā jìn ，fǎnzhèng zhīqián wǒ shì yī ge dōu zhānbùshàngbiān 。nǐ shàng yī ge gōngzuò zěnmeyàng ？
Ugh, don’t bring it up. People say a good job has a high salary, little work, and is close to home; I didn't have anything close to that before. How was your last job?
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上面，下面，上边，下边
shàngmiàn ，xiàmiàn ，shàngbiān ，xiàbiān
above, below, top, bottom
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