升

昇traditional

HSK 5#1076 by frequencyradical 十

shēng["v","q"]

to ascend; to rise to the rank of; to promote; to hoist; liter; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗

shēng

to ascend; to rise (variant of 升[sheng1]); to promote; to elevate (variant of 升[sheng1])

Examples

速度提升。

Faster.

旗子升起了。

The flag is up.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.