升

See also 昇

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

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Han character

升 (radical 24 十+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿 (HT), four-corner 2440₀)

1. arise, go up
2. hoist
3. advance
4. An ancient measuring unit
5. 公升, i.e. litre

Derived characters

• 昇 枡 陞

See also

• 飛

References

• KangXi: page 156, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2702
• Dae Jaweon: page 353, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 33, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5347

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Cantonese

Hanzi

升 (Yale sing1)

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Japanese

Noun

升 (counter 升, hiragana ます, romaji masu)

1. a unit of liquid measure equal to 1.8liters or 1800cl.
2. a box used for measuring or serving 酒 in units of 1800cl.

Kanji

升 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: ます (masu), のぼる (noboru)

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Korean

Hanja

升 (hangeul 승, revised seung, McCune-Reischauer sŭng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

升 (pinyin shēng (sheng1), Wade-Giles sheng¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

升 (thăng, thưng)