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上 — stroke order
Watch how to write 上 (shàng) stroke by stroke. 上 has 3 strokes and means “above”. It appears in common words such as 晚上 (evening) and 上班 (to go to work). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 上
The most common words that use 上 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
晚上wǎnshangevening上班shàngbānto go to work早上zǎoshangearly morning上海shànghǎiShanghai municipality, central east Chi…馬上mǎshàngat once上網shàngwǎngto be on the internet
How 上 is written
- Radical
- 一
- Formation
- Ideographic — One stroke on top of another; compare 下 (below).