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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)
Practice writing
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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
- —上甲板upper deck
- —上首尾great success; happy result; good result
- —上出来good performance; good work; great success
- —上昇線rising curve
- —上場株listed stock
- —上申書written report
- —上水道waterworks
- —上製本hardcover book; hardback book
- —上奏文report to the throne
- —上層雲high-level clouds; high clouds
- —上層階upper floor (of a building)
- —上層土topsoil
- —上層風winds aloft
- —上中下excellent-good-poor; first-second-third (class); (in) three volumes (a literary work)
- —上天気fine weather; splendid weather
- —上棟式ridgepole-raising ceremony
- —上等品first-class article
- —上等兵private first-class (army); airman first class (air force); lance corporal (US Marines; Commonwealth military); seaman (navy)
- —上納金money paid to authorities; money paid to the government; money forcibly collected by yakuza bosses from subordinate gang members; contributions levied by gangster organizations on subordinates; money paid to a feudal lord; tribute money
- —上納米rice-tax delivery