明升暗降 Save Sign in to save words míngshēngànjiàng ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ ㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄤˋ to kick sb upstairs idiom Character by character 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 升(shēng)ascend 暗(àn)dark 降(jiàng)drop A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0