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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
- —艦上機carrier-based aircraft
- —非上場unlisted (company, stock)
- —論理上logically; from a logical point of view
- —実質上practical; actual; de facto; in essence; in all but name
- —外交上diplomatic; diplomatically
- —上顧客loyal customer; important customer
- —外見上outward; superficial; external; apparent
- —献上物gifts given to or received by a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)
- —上祭服chasuble; phelonion
- —地上階above-ground floor; ground floor
- —上皇后retired empress; ex-empress; former empress; empress emerita
- —上面図top view (esp. diagrams)
- —上質紙wood-free paper; woodfree paper; fine paper; free sheet paper
- —橋上駅elevated station; over-track station
- —地上駅ground-level station; aboveground station
- —色上質colored wood-free paper (coloured)
- —路上寝sleeping on the road (because of intoxication)
- —上級品high-quality article
- —字上符superscript diacritics; diacritical marks above letters
- —上位者person of high rank or position