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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
- —海上法maritime law
- —海上権maritime authority
- —上告審appeal hearing
- —上得意good customer; prime customer; valued clientele
- —大上段holding a sword above one's head (kendo posture); haughty attitude; overbearing manner
- —戦略上strategic; strategically; from a strategic point of view
- —雲上人the nobility
- —上腕筋brachial muscle
- —中以上above average
- —上載圧overburden stress
- —上腕骨humerus
- —道徳上morally; from a moral point of view; moral (issue, responsibility, etc.); ethical
- —地上戦land war
- —運営上operational
- —健康上health-related; health (problem, reasons, etc.); in terms of health; from a health standpoint; for one's health
- —最上階top floor
- —憲法上constitutional; constitutionally
- —業務上job-related; operational; business; in the course of one's work
- —形式上in form; ceremonial; for form's sake; pro forma
- —地上絵geoglyph (drawing on the ground)