升 shēng in a sentence
Ascend (raise - peaceful - promote - leter - quart)
升 (shēng) means Ascend (raise - peaceful - promote - leter - quart). Below are 12 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这瓶水有两 升 。
Zhè píng shuǐ yǒu liǎng shēng.
This bottle holds two litres of water.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 升
太阳从东边 升 起。
Tàiyáng cóng dōngbiān shēng qǐ.
The sun rises in the east.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 升
他去年晋 升 为部门主管。
Tā qùnián jìnshēng wéi bùmén zhǔguǎn.
He was promoted to department head last year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 晋升
他的事业正处在上 升 期。
Tā de shìyè zhèng chǔ zài shàngshēng qī.
His career is on the way up.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 事业
晋 升 需要经过严格的考核。
Jìnshēng xūyào jīngguò yángé de kǎohé.
Promotion requires passing a rigorous assessment.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 晋升
这次考试他的名次上 升 了。
Zhè cì kǎoshì tā de míngcì shàngshēng le.
His ranking rose in this exam.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 名次
通货膨胀让生活成本上 升 。
Tōnghuò péngzhàng ràng shēnghuó chéngběn shàngshēng.
Inflation has pushed up the cost of living.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 通货膨胀
他为了 升 职，处处巴结领导。
Tā wèile shēngzhí, chùchù bājie lǐngdǎo.
He curries favour with the boss at every turn in order to get promoted.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 巴结
傍晚时分，村子里 升 起了炊烟。
Bàngwǎn shífēn, cūnzi lǐ shēng qǐ le chuīyān.
Towards evening, cooking smoke rose over the village.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 炊烟
服务业在经济中的比重逐年上 升 。
Fúwùyè zài jīngjì zhōng de bǐzhòng zhúnián shàngshēng.
The share of the service sector in the economy rises year by year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 比重
原材料涨价使生产成本不断上 升 。
Yuáncáiliào zhǎngjià shǐ shēngchǎn chéngběn búduàn shàngshēng.
Rising raw-material prices keep pushing production costs up.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 成本
价格降低销量就上 升 ，反之亦然。
Jiàgé jiàngdī xiāoliàng jiù shàngshēng, fǎnzhī yìrán.
Lower the price and sales rise, and vice versa.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 反之
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Words that contain 升
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Questions about 升
How is 升 used in a sentence?
This page shows 12 sentences using 升 (shēng, "Ascend (raise - peaceful - promote - leter - quart)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 升 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 升 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 升 an HSK word?
Yes — 升 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 升?
The dictionary page for 升 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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