上下
shàngxià
nounHSK 5
“The top and bottom of sth” in Chinese is 上下 (shàngxià).
Meaning
- the top and bottom of sth
- the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom
- to go up and down
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- before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context")
- (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so
- (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates")
- all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation")
- relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
Example
我的名字上上下下一共50多笔划，写起来真麻烦。
Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).
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