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上网

shàng wǎng 4–3

to go online; to connect to the Internet; (of a document etc) to be uploaded to the Internet; (tennis, volleyball etc) to move in close to the net

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
上 · 网
Syllables
2
shàng wǎng
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 4,061

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 上shàng3 strokesHSK 1top; superior, highest; go up, send up
  • 网wǎng6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 網net; network; Kangxi radical 122

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

Example sentences

  • 他在上网。

    Tā zài shàng wǎng

    He is on the Internet.

  • 我上网了。

    Wǒ shàng wǎng le

    I am online.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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