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to rise

Composition


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Pinyin

sheng1 shēng

Meaning


Primary

to rise

Alternatives

rise, risen, rose, rising, rises, to ascend, ascend, go up, liter

Mnemonic


[sh-] Shrek is in [1] front of the [-(e)ng] English manor, which he feels is uncomfortably clean. He takes out a 升 liter bottle of swamp mud from his pocket and pours it on the immaculate lawn. Then he 升 rises up high and splashes the mud all over the lawn and the front of the manor, 升 rising his spirits as he now feels at home in this messier manor lawn.

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