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 city

2 town

3 classifier: 座 zuò

1 to take along with one

1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)

2 to throw a tantrum

1 lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter

2 scrupulous attention to detail

1 lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail

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

2 spare the rod, spoil the child