Learn Mandarin – Chinese Direction Complements

Simple direction complements: 
coming closer and going away
来: coming closer.
Example sentence:
你从哪里来?
wher do you come from?
去: going away
你到哪里去?
wher are you going?
 
up and down: 上 (shàng) and 下 (xià)
上: up
Example sentence:
他爬上了那座山。
He climbed up the mountain.
下: down
Example sentence:
他从山顶往下看。
He looked down from the top of the mountain.

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