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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
- —底抜け上戸extremely heavy drinker; insatiable drinker
- —水上機母艦seaplane carrier
- —山上の説教Sermon on the Mount
- —地上の楽園earthly paradise; heaven on earth
- —屋上遊園地rooftop amusement park
- —艦上攻撃機carrier-borne attack aircraft
- —上皇后陛下retired empress; ex-empress; former empress; empress emerita
- —扁平上皮癌squamous cell carcinoma; SCC
- —非上場企業unlisted company (on a stock exchange)
- —上顎前突症maxillary prognathism
- —田中上奏文Tanaka memorial (document, ca. 1927)
- —柱上変圧器distribution transformer; service transformer; pole-mounted transformer
- —上代日本語Old Japanese
- —上位蜃気楼superior mirage
- —地上作業員ground staff; ground crew
- —海上自衛官member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force; MSDF official
- —陸上競技場athletic field; athletics stadium
- —赤丸急上昇sudden increase (e.g. in ranking, popularity or sales); rapid rise (e.g. to fame or power)
- —上行大動脈ascending aorta
- —視交叉上核suprachiasmatic nucleus; SCN