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上山
Mandarin · pinyin shàng shān
Meanings
- to climb a hill
- to go to the mountains
- (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons)
- to pass away
- (of the sun or moon) to rise
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4–1 · shang4 shan1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
soeng5 saan1
Cantonese word readings for 上山. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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verb
- to climb a mountain or a hill
- (of the sun or moon) to rise
- (dialectal, euphemistic) to die and be buried
- (dialectal, of silkworms) to be placed on small straw bundles to spin cocoons
- (Sichuanese, Shanghainese) to be imprisoned
- (Sichuanese, Guiyang Mandarin, Pingxiang Gan, Loudi Xiang) to attend a burial; to take part in a funeral procession
- (Muping Mandarin) to go to the fields and work
- (Xinzhou Jin) to climb a mountain and quarry rock
- (Teochew) to pay respects to a dead person at their grave
noun
- (Wenzhounese) the southwestern part of Wenzhou (including areas such as Wencheng and Taishun)
name
- (～市) Kaminoyama (a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan)
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