thượng

Sino-Vietnamese word from 上.

There is also the reading thướng derived from the Middle Chinese verb, meaning "to go up, to ascend", but is very rarely, if ever, used in Vietnamese and mostly seen in Sino-Vietnamese transcriptions of Chinese texts.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰɨəŋ˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰɨəŋ˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰɨəŋ˨˩˨]

thượng

1. (only in fixed expressions) upper; higher; top

   Antonym: hạ

   sông Nin Thượng ― the Upper Nile

thượng

1. (colloquial) to put or bring (something) up on (a place in an unsightly way, where the thing does not belong); to put up high; to jump up