| shàng | on/on top/upon/first (of two parts)/previous or last (week etc)/upper/higher/above/previous/to climb/to go into/to go up/to attend (class or university)/third tone of putonghua |
| 上 | see 上聲|上声 |
| 上一个 | previous one |
| 上一次 | last; last time |
| 上一辈 | the last generation; the preceding generation |
| 上一页 | preceding page |
| 上万 | over ten thousand fig. untold numbers innumerable |
| 上上 | before last; the very best |
| 上上下下 | from cellar to rafter; uphill and downhill; up and down |
| 上上之策 | the best policy the best thing one can do in the circumstances |
| 上下 | up and down top and bottom old and new |
| 上下五千年 | popular history of China in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹余章 |
| 上下其手 | to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint fig. conspiring to defraud |
| 上下文 | (textual) context |
| 上下文有关 | context-sensitive; context-dependent |
| 上下文的 | contextual |
| 上下文菜单 | context menu (computing) |
| 上下水 | water-supply line and sewer |
| 上下班 | to start and finish work |
| 上下班交通 | commutation |
| 上下班时间 | rush hour |