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上 kanji
above, up
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
ジョウショウシャン
Kun readings
うえ-うえうわ-かみあげる-あげるあがる-あがるあがり-あがりのぼるのぼりのぼせるのぼすたてまつる
Variant forms
丄Words with 上
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —上国province of the second highest rank (ritsuryō system); provinces close to the capital
- —上肉high-quality meat
- —上門superphylum
- —墓上on a grave; by a grave
- —道上on the road; side of the road; roadside
- —辺上side; edge
- —色上colored wood-free paper (coloured)
- —図上on a map; on a chart
- —上淫being romantically involved with someone of higher class (esp. of a man)
- —面上on one's face; one's face; meeting face-to-face; seeing in person
- —挙上elevation; elevating; lifting up
- —壁上on a wall; surface of a wall
- —上拍upbeat
- —塁上on base; on a fort
- —凍上frost heaving; upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions
- —上裸naked above the waist; stripped to the waist; shirtless
- —上燗moderately heated sake
- —掌上palm of one's hand; one's hand
- —路上On the Road (novel by Jack Kerouac)
- —上清supernatant