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马上

mǎ shàng 3–4

at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force)

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
马 · 上
Syllables
2
mǎ shàng
Frequency
Common
corpus count 847

Part of speech: d,s

Character by character

  • 马mǎ3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 馬horse; surname; Kangxi radical 187
  • 上shàng3 strokesHSK 1top; superior, highest; go up, send up

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 马上回来。

    Mǎ shàng huí lai

    Return immediately.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 马上. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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