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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
- —民族上ethnic; racial
- —人種上racial
- —上質葉high-quality leaves (e.g. green onions, tobacco, tea)
- —上手物quality goods; choice goods
- —上行路ascending tract
- —急浮上bursting through the surface; suddenly surfacing; rapid ascent; sudden increase (e.g. in public interest); fast rise (e.g. in rank)
- —上代語ancient language; ancient word; Old Japanese; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period
- —経験上empirical; from experience
- —上級者advanced student; advanced learner; advanced practitioner; experienced person
- —名義上nominal; in name only; titular
- —身体上physical; bodily; corporeal
- —道路上on the road
- —上国石jokokuite
- —文法上grammatical; grammatically
- —運上金Edo-period business taxes
- —上下巻first and second volume (e.g. of a book); volume one and volume two; book one and book two
- —上層語superstratum; superstrate
- —軌道上in orbit
- —管理上administrative
- —行政上administrative