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上午

shàng wǔ

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

上午 (shàng wǔ) means "morning". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 上午 means

1. morning

The characters in 上午

• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…
• 午wǔ7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of…

Example sentences

• 我上午慢跑。
  I jog in the morning.

Sounds the same

Read shàng wǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 尚武to promote a martial spirit; to revere military skills; warlike

Where 上午 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time Expressions (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shàng wǔ correctly.
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