馬上

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See also: 马上

Chinese

horse; surname
 
up; on; on top
up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up
trad. (馬上) 馬 上
simp. (马上) 马 上
anagram 上馬／上马

Etymology

From 馬背上 (mǎ bèi shàng), "on horseback", by extension, "at once; immediately", on account of the horse being the fastest mode of transportation in ancient times.

Pronunciation

Adverb

馬上

  1. at once; immediately; without delay; in a minute; soon
    我馬上就回來。／我马上就回来。  ―  Wǒ mǎshàng jiù huílái.  ―  I'll be back in a minute.
    馬上要過年了，回去又要拼酒了。 [MSC, trad.]
    马上要过年了，回去又要拼酒了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Mǎshàng yào guònián le, huíqù yòu yào pīnjiǔ le.
    Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I have to have drinking contests again when I go back.
  2. (literally, literary) on horseback (especially of a military campaign)

Synonyms

  • (at once):
Dialectal synonyms of 馬上 (“immediately; at once”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 馬上, 立刻, 立即, 即時, 即刻, 隨即, 迅即, 立時, 當下, 當即, 登時, 頓時, 眼看
Mandarin Beijing 馬上, 立時刻, 立馬兒, 跟時, 跟手兒
Taiwan 馬上, 立刻
Harbin 馬上, 立刻亮兒
Yantai (Muping) 跟著, 馬上, 眼看著
Jinan 馬上, 馬上馬, 立刻, 立馬追即
Luoyang 眼看, 當下, 說聲兒
Wanrong 馬上
Xi'an 馬上
Yinchuan 馬上, 眼看
Lanzhou 馬上, 立馬
Xining 眼看
Ürümqi 馬上, 立馬兒
Wuhan 馬上, 接身, 眼看
Chengdu 馬上, 跟倒, 跟即, 立時, 立馬
Guiyang 馬上, 立馬
Guilin 馬上
Liuzhou 馬上
Xuzhou 馬上馬, 馬展, 馬時
Yangzhou 馬上
Nanjing 馬即, 馬上
Hefei 馬上
Malaysia 馬上
Singapore 馬上, 立刻
Cantonese Guangzhou 即刻, 即時, 登時, 當堂
Hong Kong 即刻, 立即, 即時, 當堂
Taishan 即刻, 當下
Dongguan 即午, 馬上
Yangjiang 跟手
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 即刻
Singapore (Guangfu) 即刻
Gan Nanchang 馬上, 仰上
Lichuan 馬上, 即刻
Pingxiang 馬上
Hakka Meixian 即刻, 即時, 馬上, 黏時, 力曆
Yudu 馬上
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 黏時, 黏皮, 跈等, 馬上
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 黏時, 黏皮, 跈等, 馬上
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 黏皮, 黏時, 跈等, 馬上
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 黏時, 跈緊, 跈核, 登時, 馬上
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 黏時, 跈等, 馬上
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 黏時, 隨
Huizhou Jixi 當時
Shexian 馬上
Tunxi 馬上
Xiuning 馬上
Yixian 即刻
Qimen 馬上
Wuyuan 馬上
Jin Taiyuan 跟手, 立馬, 立時三刻
Xinzhou 眼看
Northern Min Jian'ou 馬上
Eastern Min Fuzhou 此刻, 馬上, 連刻
Southern Min Xiamen 連鞭, 隨, 隨時, 隨煞, 現煞, 馬上, 煞
Quanzhou 連鞭, 隨, 隨煞, 現煞, 馬上, 煞
Jinjiang 隨時
Zhangzhou 連鞭, 隨, 現煞, 馬上, 煞
Taipei 連鞭, 隨時, 即時
Singapore (Hokkien) 馬上
Manila (Hokkien) 隨, 隨隨, 隨時
Chaozhou 隨時, 馬上, 即時
Shantou 馬上
Singapore (Teochew) 馬上
Leizhou 當下, 即時
Haikou 即刻, 登場
Zhongshan Min Shaxi (Longdu) 馬上, 即刻
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 馬上, 即刻
Wu Shanghai 馬上, 即刻, 隨即, 立刻, 立時, 頓時, 歇歇, 立時三刻, 臨時豁腳, 立馬造橋
Shanghai (Chongming) 眼看
Suzhou 馬上
Danyang 跟手
Hangzhou 立馬兒
Ningbo 隨手
Wenzhou 馬上, 馬上馬, 隨手, 肇
Jinhua 馬上
Xiang Changsha 馬上, 𪐀噠
Loudi 馬下
Shuangfeng 馬上

Related terms

References

  1. ^ 文若愚 (2014) 语言常识全知道, 中国华侨出版社

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji in this term
馬 上
ば
Grade: 2 		じょう
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

馬(ば)上(じょう) • (bajō) 

  1. horseback, the back of a horse
  2. horseback riding

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  • Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  • 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
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