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- the top and bottom of sth
- the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom
- to go up and down
- before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context")
- (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so
- (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates")
- all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation")
- relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- fig. conspiring to defraud
Trad. 舉國上下
- the entire nation
- the whole country, from the leadership to the rank and file
- Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹餘章|曹余章[Cao2 Yu2 zhang1]
Trad. 上下文菜單
- context menu (computing)
- lit. knives rain down from the sky (idiom)
- fig. (even if) the sky crumbles