| 升 | shēng | ascend; peaceful; to raise; to hoist; to promote; metric liter (also written 公升); measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗 |
| 升高 | shēng gāo | to raise; to ascend |
| 升降 | shēng jiàng | rising and lowering |
| 升降机 | shēng jiàng jī | aerial work platform (e.g. cherry picker or scissor lift); lift; elevator |
| 升级 | shēng jí | promotion; upgrade; to escalate (in intensity); step up; to increase; to rise; to go up |
| 升华 | shēng huá | to sublimate; sublimation (physics); to raise to a higher level; to refine; promotion |
| 升官 | shēng guān | to get promoted |
| 升学 | shēng xué | to enter the next grade school |
| 升天 | shēng tiān | lit. to ascend to heaven; to die |
| 升腾 | shēng téng | to rise; to ascend; to leap up |
| 升汞 | shēng gǒng | mercuric chloride (HgCl) |
| 升任 | shēng rèn | to be promoted to |
| 升官发财 | shēng guān fā cái | to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom) |
| 升市 | shēng shì | rising prices; bull market |
| 升幅 | shēng fú | extent of an increase; percentage rise |
| 升息 | shēng xī | to raise interest rates |
| 升斗 | shēng dǒu | lit. liter and decaliter dry measure; fig. wretchedly poor ration; grinding poverty |
| 升斗小民 | shēng dǒu xiǎo mín | poor people (idiom); lit. people surviving on 升斗, wretchedly poor ration; in grinding poverty |
| 升旗 | shēng qí | to raise a flag; to hoist a flag |
| 升旗仪式 | shēng qí yí shì | flag raising ceremony |
| 升格 | shēng gé | promotion; upgrade |
| 升结肠 | shēng jié cháng | ascending colon (anatomy); first section of large intestine |
| 升起 | shēng qǐ | to raise; to hoist; to rise |
| 升遐 | shēng xiá | to pass away (of an emperor) |
| 升迁 | shēng qiān | promote; promotion |
| 升值 | shēng zhí | to rise in value; to appreciate |
| 升空 | shēng kōng | to rise to the sky; to lift off; to levitate; lift-off |
| 升调 | shēng diào | rising tone (phonetics, e.g. on a question in English) |
