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
上限
shàngxiàn
upper limit; ceiling
Characters in this word
限 xiàn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 艮 blunt
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 为了控制风险，平台给单笔交易设置了严格的金额上限。 Wèile kòngzhì fēngxiǎn, píngtái gěi dān bǐ jiāoyì shèzhì le yángé de jīn'é shàngxiàn. To control risk, the platform set a strict upper limit on the amount of a single transaction.
- 合同规定的工资上限还没确定。 Hétong guīdìng de gōngzī shàngxiàn hái méi quèdìng. The salary ceiling stated in the contract has not been decided yet.
- 我的信用卡每月消费有上限，不能再刷了。 Wǒ de xìnyòngkǎ měi yuè xiāofèi yǒu shàngxiàn, bù néng zài shuā le. My credit card has a monthly spending limit, so I can't put anything else on it.
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