Pinyin: shàng

on; above; up

Example sentence

猫在椅子上。

Māo zài yǐzi shàng.

The cat is on the chair.

What 上 means

(shàng) is an Chinese word meaning “on; above; up”. It belongs to the Places & Position topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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