昇 Simplified: 升 On the HSK 3 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B1. shēng ㄕㄥ to ascend to rise (variant of 升[sheng1]) to promote to elevate (variant of 升[sheng1]) Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT