上下 shàngxià

1. shàngxià verb to go up and down
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '上下'; Guoyu '上下' 1)
2. shàngxià verb to increase and decrease
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 增减 (CC-CEDICT '上下'; Guoyu '上下' 2)
3. shàngxià verb face-to-face
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 相对 (Guoyu '上下' 3)
4. shàngxià adjective approximately
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 左右 (CC-CEDICT '上下'; Guoyu '上下' 4)
5. shàngxià noun top and bottom
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '上下)
6. shàngxià noun a bailiff
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 公差 (Guoyu '上下' 5)
7. shàngxià verb to ask about a taboo name
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '上下' 6)

Contained in

• 不分上下 not to know one's place
• 上下铺(上下鋪) bunk bed
• 浑身上下(渾身上下) all over; from head to toe
• 不相上下 equally matched; about the same
• 上下文 textual context
• 上下班 to start and finish work
• 举国上下(舉國上下) the entire nation; the whole country, from the leadership to the rank and file
• 上下床 bunk bed
• 上下五千年 popular history of China in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹余章
• 上下其手 to raise and lower one's hand; to signal as conspiratorial hint; conspiring to defraud
• 神祇上下 gods of heaven and earth
• 上下班时间(上下班時間) rush hour
• 天上下刀子 knives rain down from the sky; (even if) the sky crumbles
• 阴阳出入上下(陰陽出入上下) yin and yang leave and enter, rise and descend

Also contained in

上下文内关键词 、 上下文菜单

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷八 度制第二十七 爵國第二十八 仁義法第二十九 必仁且智第三十　Scroll 8 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 39
• 卷27　志第22 百官中 Volume 27 Treatises 22: Government Offices 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 12
• 卷十五 Scroll 15 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
• 卷八十三 志第五十九 河渠一 Volume 83 Treatises 59: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 8
• 卷四十三 志第二十三: 職官二 Volume 43 Treatises 23: Government Service 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 8
• 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 7
• 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 7
• 君臣下第三十一 Chapter 31: A Ruler and his Ministers II Guanzi 管子 — count: 7

Collocations

• 君臣上下 (君臣上下) 君臣上下 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧甫田之什‧桑扈 Minor odes of the kingdom - Fu Tian Zhi Shen - Sang Hu — count: 18
• 上下相亲 (上下相親) 上下相親 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《經解》 The Different Teachings of the Different Kings — count: 6
• 上下不和 (上下不和) 上下不和 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢第二 Chapter 2: Circumstances — count: 5
• 上下交 (上下交) 上下交而其志同也 — Book of Changes 易經, 泰 Tai — count: 4
• 上下不同 (上下不同) 是故上下不同義 — Mozi 墨子, 卷三 尚同中 Book 3 - Identification with the Superior II — count: 4
• 上下同 (上下同) 上下同之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
• 上下离心 (上下離心) 是故上下離心 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八　本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 3
• 苟上下 (苟上下) 若苟上下不同義 — Mozi 墨子, 卷三 尚同中 Book 3 - Identification with the Superior II — count: 3
• 上下一心 (上下一心) 上下一心 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十　繆稱訓 Chapter 10: Solemn Precepts — count: 3
• 上下乱 (上下亂) 則上下亂 — Mencius 孟子, 盡心下 Jin Xin II — count: 3