升职
shēng zhí · HSK 5
to get promoted
⬆️💼 升 = rise + 职 = job/post; rising in your job = promotion
升 means to rise or ascend; 职 means post, duty, or job position. Together 升职 literally reads as rise-in-post, the standard term for a workplace promotion. Compare 职业 (occupation) and 升级 (level up).
升 — ladle/scoop pictograph (related to 斗)
升 originally pictured a ladle or dipper used to measure grain, closely related to 斗 (a larger dipper). It came to denote a unit of dry measure (a 'sheng', about a liter). From 'scooping up' it extended to the meaning 'rise, ascend'.