交上

jiāoshàng

verb #21,950

Meanings

1 to hand in
2 to submit
3 to turn over (to someone above)

Characters

to hand over/to submit

upward/to a superior

Examples

请把作业交上来。

Qǐng bǎ zuòyè jiāo shàng lái.

Please hand in your homework.

他把报告交上去了。

Tā bǎ bàogào jiāo shàng qù le.

He submitted the report.

到期必须把材料交上去。

Dàoqī bìxū bǎ cáiliào jiāo shàng qù.

The materials must be submitted by the deadline.

Tips

grammar

交上 is a directional compound: 交 (to hand over) + 上 (upward direction). In practice it splits into 交上来 (hand it up to me, speaker is above) or 交上去 (hand it up there, speaker is below). The direction words 来/去 indicate the speaker's position relative to the destination.

Stroke Order

交 jiāo

上 shàng