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上台

shàng tái

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

上台 (shàng tái) means "to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 上台 means

1. to rise to power (in politics)
2. to go on stage (in the theater)

The characters in 上台

• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…
• 台tái(classical) you (in letters); variant of 台

Example sentences

• 齐里被叫上台。
  Ziri was called onto the stage.

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shàng tái correctly.
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