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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
- —上喉頭動脈superior laryngeal artery
- —首尾は上々excellent outcome; highly successful result; turning out very well
- —上越新幹線Jōetsu Shinkansen
- —東武東上線Tōbu Tōjō Line
- —陸上作戦本部tactical operations center; tactical operations centre
- —恋愛至上主義love for love's sake
- —芸術至上主義art for art's sake; l'art pour l'art; ars gratia artis
- —屋上屋を架すto do something useless; to gild the lily; to gild refined gold; to build a roof atop the roof
- —陸上端局装置land terminal equipment (of a submarine cable)
- —意味上の主語sense subject
- —モル沸点上昇molar elevation
- —緊急浮上訓練emergency surfacing drill (submarine)
- —サムエル記上Samuel I (book of the Bible)
- —一身上の都合personal reasons; personal matters; personal affairs
- —憲法上の権利constitutional right
- —二部上場企業Second Section company (on the Tokyo Stock Exchange)
- —机上チェックdesk checking
- —最上位ビットmost significant bit; MSB
- —事実上の標準de facto standard
- —上位グループancestor