Definitions
(verb)
to rise; to ascend; to promote
(noun)
liter (unit of volume)
(noun)
measure for dry grain (1; 10 of a dou)
Etymology
Pictograph of a spoon with something inside it. Spoons are used to lift things up.
About
The character "升" originated as a pictograph of a ladle or scoop used for measuring grain, which later solidified as a unit of dry volume roughly equivalent to a liter. Its modern structure, consisting of a vertical stroke with a hook crossed by a short horizontal line and an adjacent right-sided stroke, is an abstract retention of this vessel's form with a handle. The semantic shift from a concrete measuring tool to the verb meaning "to rise" or "to ascend" occurred through the historical practice of phonetic loan, where the character was employed to write a phonetically similar word expressing upward movement, leading to this abstract meaning becoming widespread.
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太阳升起来了。
气球升上了天空。
他的职位升了。
水位正在上升。
公司计划升级系统。
经济发展促进生活水平提升。
随着温度升高，冰开始融化。
通过努力学习，他的成绩显著上升。