上 任

shàngrèn

“To take office” in Chinese is 上任 (shàngrèn).

Meaning

to take office
previous (incumbent)
predecessor

Example

新官上任三把火。

A new broom sweeps clean.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

shàngHSK 13 strokesup; upper; above; previous rènHSK 36 strokesto assign

More HSK 7-9 words

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Not to be confused with: 商人 (shāngrén, merchant)