CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

上街

shàngjiē

to go onto the streets

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to go onto the streets

to go shopping

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 上街 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 上街 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

因为今天我没法上街购物，只好做点三明治将就将就。yīn wèi jīn tiān wǒ méi fǎ shàng jiē gòu wù， zhǐ hǎo zuò diǎn sān míng zhì jiāng jiù jiāng jiù。

As I didn't have time to go shopping today, I had to make do with a sandwich for dinner.

夜晚大雪纷飞。第二天早上，祖母和孙子一起坐着雪橇上街。在放学后的下午，公园里的雪仗开始了。yè wǎn dà xuě fēn fēi。 dì èr tiān zǎo shàng， zǔ mǔ hé sūn zi yì qǐ zuò zhe xuě qiāo shàng jiē。 zài fàng xué hòu de xià wǔ， gōng yuán lǐ de xuě zhàng kāi shǐ le。

Plenty of snow had fallen overnight. The following morning, grandmothers and their grandchildren on sledges appeared in the streets, and in the afternoon, after school, snowball fights broke out in the park.

赤膊上街太难看。chì bó shàng jiē tài nán kàn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 上街.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 上街.

Directly before

赤膊上街1
没法上街1
雪橇上街1

Directly after

上街太1
上街购物1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 上街

What does 上街 mean in Chinese?

上街 (shàngjiē) means to go onto the streets.

How do you pronounce 上街?

上街 is pronounced shàngjiē.

Is 上街 an HSK word?

上街 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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