上下

shàng xiàshangxia

  1. the top and bottom of sth
  2. the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom
  3. to go up and down
  4. before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context")
  5. (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so
  6. (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")
  7. all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation")
  8. relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences