LookupMandarin · 繁體 · English

ChineseCharactersMeanings inMandarin–English · CC-CEDICTSources ↗

DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

上山下鄉

简上山下乡 · 繁上山下鄉

Mandarin · pinyin shàng shān xià xiāng

to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers)
forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

上: shàng · top; superior, highest; go up, send up
山: shān · mountain, hill, peak
下: xià · under, underneath, below; down; inferior; bring down
鄉: Look up this written character
乡: xiāng · country; rural; village

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–1–4–1 · shang4 shan1 xia4 xiang1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading

soeng5 saan1 haa6 hoeng1

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

(historical) Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack