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上游

shàng yóu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

上游 (shàng yóu) means "upper reaches (of a river); upper level; upper echelon". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 上游 means

1. upper reaches (of a river)
2. upper level
3. upper echelon
4. upstream

The characters in 上游

• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…
• 游yóuto swim; variant of 游

Example sentences

• 河的上游很美。
  The upper reaches of the river are very beautiful.

Words containing 上游

• 争上游zhēng shàng yóuto strive to be among the best; zheng shangyou (card game)
• 力争上游lì zhēng shàng yóuto strive for mastery (idiom); aiming for the best result; to have high ambitions

Sounds the same

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

• 上犹see 上犹县

Where 上游 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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