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On in Chinese

on · HSK 1

上 shàng

你的书在桌子上。 Your book is on the table.

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How do you say on in Chinese?

On in Chinese is 上 (shàng). You can also say 关于 (guān yú), 于 (yú), 在 (zài).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.