Character Details
| above | Ascii: — | w63 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 上 | shàng | shahng | 4 | 一 (horizontal) + 丨 (vertical) → above; up | 上 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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It's hangman's gibbet ABOVE the bathroom | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - above, on, over, up, last, previous | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - What's on the desk/table? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 1 - 一 | yī | ONE | one, horizontal line | single horizontal stroke | 一 丁 七 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 一 (horizontal) + 丨 (vertical) → above; up | 一 (line) | 上 (self‑phonetic) | semantic: position above line | ||||||||