1 see also: 上声 shǎng shēng

1 to go to work

2 to be on duty

3 to start work

4 to go to the office

1 early morning

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 evening

2 night

3 classifier: 个 gè

4 in the evening

1 up and down

2 top and bottom

3 old and new

4 length

5 about

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 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success

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 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)

2 once bitten, twice shy