升降 (shēng jiàng) — to rise and fall; to raise and lower | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

verb

to rise and fallto raise and lower

Examples

升降。
Jīn nián fáng jià shēng jiàng le bǎi fēn zhī shí wǔ.
Housing prices rose by 15% this year.
升降。
Měi tiān zǎo chén dōu yào shēng jiàng guó qí.
The national flag must be raised and lowered every morning.
升降。
Zhè zhǒng shè bèi kě yǐ shēng jiàng wǔ tái.
This kind of equipment can raise and lower the stage.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

升 ('rise') and 降 ('fall') combine to cover rising and lowering.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape comes from a drawing of a standard dipper used to measure one 升.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

阝夅降

Meaning part形符xíngfú

阝Written in full as阜fùhill, wall

Sound part声符shēngfú

夅

夅jiàng降xiáng

Same sound today

降 pairs 阝 (a hill or wall, written in full as 阜) with 夅, a sound part meaning 'to descend'; together they picture descending a hill.

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