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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
- —上位四校schools of the upper quartile; highly ranked schools
- —上昇志向desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world
- —上級准尉chief warrant officer
- —海上都市artificial island city; floating city
- —ウェブ上on the web; over the web
- —上場企業listed company (on a stock exchange)
- —上場会社listed company (on a stock exchange); publicly traded company
- —陸上植物land plant; terrestrial plant; embryophyte
- —エロ上戸horny drunkard
- —議会上院upper house; senate
- —温度上昇temperature increase; rise in temperature
- —途上与信credit monitoring; credit limit monitoring
- —天一天上days on which Ten'ichijin is in heaven (the 30th to the 45th days of the sexagenary cycle)
- —下達上通conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers; rulers apprehending the views of those they govern
- —史上最高record high; all-time high
- —手続き上procedural
- —衝上断層thrust fault
- —上意討ちexecution (on the command of a feudal lord)
- —上行結腸ascending colon
- —精巣上体epididymis