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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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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
- —殿上の間palace floor
- —帷幄上奏direct appeal to the throne by the military
- —上意下達conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system)
- —今上天皇His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor
- —至上命令unconditional command; must-obey order
- —下意上達conveyance of the views of those below to those at the top
- —水上競技water sports; aquatic sports
- —怒り上戸quarrelsome drinker
- —海上保険maritime insurance
- —海上封鎖sea blockade
- —頂上会談summit conference
- —逃げ口上excuse; evasion; dodge; subterfuge; evasive answer
- —屋上庭園rooftop garden
- —紙上計画paper plan
- —上品ぶるto give oneself airs; to be prudish
- —平上去入the four tones in old Chinese phonetics
- —上下関係pecking order; hierarchical relationship; vertical relationship; hyponymy
- —上位概念high level concept; superordinate concept; broader term
- —上映時間running time (of a movie)
- —上昇傾向upward tendency; rising trend