上台 (shàng tái) means “to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
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新总统即将上台执政。
Xīn zǒngtǒng jíjiāng shàngtái zhízhèng.
The new president is about to take power.
Updated: 2026-07-18