Example sentences
shàng上wǔ午yǒu有huì会ma吗？
Is there a meeting in the morning?
wǒ我shàng上wǔ午qù去。
I'll go in the morning.
The story behind the character
上
A line with a short mark above it, meaning "on top of." This kind of character isn't drawn, it's indicated. Xu Shen wrote 上, 高也: "up, high." Fun fact: it used to be two lines, and the vertical stroke was added later to stop it being confused with the number 二.