上 shàng
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 一 — one
- Made of
- ⺊ divination 一 one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
上个月
shànggeyuè
last month
Characters in this word
个 gè
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
月 yuè
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 上个月很忙。 Shàng ge yuè hěn máng. Last month was very busy.
- 我上个月去了。 Wǒ shàng ge yuè qù le. I went last month.
- 上个月下雪了。 Shàng ge yuè xià xuě le. It snowed last month.
Related words
- 车上 chēshang in the car, on the bus
- 地上 dìshang on the ground, on the floor
- 关上 guānshàng to close, to shut
- 楼上 lóushàng upstairs
- 路上 lùshang on the way
- 马上 mǎshàng right away, at once
- 上 shàng on, above; to go up
- 上班 shàngbān to go to work
- 上边 shàngbian above, on top
- 上车 shàngchē to get on (a bus or car)
- 上次 shàngcì last time
- 上课 shàngkè to attend class, to start class