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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
- —地上波ground wave; terrestrial broadcast signal (i.e. not satellite); terrestrial; over-the-air; terrestrial broadcasting; over-the-air broadcasting
- —浮上高flying height; head gap
- —職務上in the course of one's duties
- —計算上according to the calculations; as far as calculations are concerned; computationally
- —至上者Supreme Being
- —至上神supreme deity
- —上肢帯pectoral girdle
- —陸上部track and field club
- —上白糖caster sugar
- —鵯上戸Solanum lyratum (species of nightshade)
- —上昇調rising intonation; rising tone
- —奥上臈maid working in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)
- —地上茎epigeal stem; (normal) plant stem which is above the ground
- —潮上帯supratidal zone
- —上昇率rate of increase (e.g. prices); rate of climb (e.g. aircraft)
- —上層部top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
- —伝説上legendary; fabled; fabulous
- —上昇期upturn; increment phase; rise period
- —保安上security-related; from the stand-point of safety
- —宗教上religious; spiritual