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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
- —上分別good idea; wise policy
- —雪上車snowcat (vehicle); snowmobile
- —前口上introductory remarks
- —体裁上for appearances' sake; for appearance sake
- —天上界celestial world; heaven
- —殿上人courtier; court official
- —表面上on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently
- —腹上死death during sexual intercourse
- —米上院US Senate
- —便宜上for convenience; as a matter of convenience
- —法律上legal; from a legal standpoint; legally speaking; de jure
- —民事上civil
- —予算上budgetary
- —歴史上historic; historical
- —下克上juniors dominating seniors; inferiors overthrowing their superiors; retainer supplanting his lord
- —衛生上hygiene-related; sanitary; from a hygiene standpoint; in terms of hygiene; with respect to health
- —口上書verbal note (notes verbale); written statement
- —至上権supremacy; sovereignty
- —最上級highest grade; finest quality; top class; superlative (degree)
- —地上権surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies