? ? How do you usually indicate your direction to others? For example, tell your child that there are stars in the sky, what would you do? Fingers point to the sky, indicating that there are stars in the sky above, regardless of the country, indicating that the direction of the finger will indicate what he wants you to see.

? ? In hieroglyphics, a straight stroke is like a finger, and the point of this straight line is what this Chinese character wants you to understand.

? ?In the image structure of Chinese characters, there is a special image of the word. This Chinese character can't sum up its image simply with a simple stroke. But can label a graphic to know the exact meaning of this Chinese character. The ancient Chinese created many Chinese characters through such labeling methods.

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? ?"上" is the use of this method of word-making?

? ?Does Oracle's "上" look like "二"? But why is Oracle "上" written like this, you know? Guess which line represents a finger.

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The above one is short and represents the finger.?

? ?The horizontal line below represents where the person is standing. The top of our fingers is above. Indicates the height, the meaning above. In order to distinguish between "上" and "二", the indicated short horizontal becomes short vertical. Time kept moving forward, and Chinese characters were changing its image. So the word "上" is also changing its image, becoming the most common word "上" now.

? ?So "上" is a word that indicates a position.The English meaning of the word "上" is: above。