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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
- —一身上personal (affairs, reasons, etc.)
- —急上昇sudden rise; steep climb; trending
- —軍事上military; strategic
- —刑事上penal; criminal
- —形而上metaphysical
- —交際上as a matter of social courtesy
- —公海上on the high seas
- —向上心ambition; aspiration; desire to improve oneself
- —再上映rescreening (of a movie); reshowing; rerun; repeat
- —再浮上resurfacing
- —裁判上judicial
- —作戦上operational; strategic
- —史上にin history
- —上下線both (railway) tracks; (both) up and down tracks (lines)
- —上下動vertical motion (in earthquakes)
- —上菓子quality cakes
- —上級生student in a higher grade; upperclassman
- —上景気boom; prosperity
- —上古史ancient history
- —上向線upswing