Kanji1 / 3
上 kanji
above, up
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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
- —上足high retainer
- —上腿thigh
- —上代ancient times (e.g. Heian and Nara periods in Japan); remote ages; early history; (nominal) retail price
- —上端upper end; top; tip; top edge
- —上段upper tier; upper section; upper deck; upper row; upper step; upper grade; upper berth; top shelf; place of honor; place of honour; dais; raised part of floor; overhead position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)
- —上智supreme wisdom
- —上長one's superior; senior; elder
- —上帝Shangdi (creator deity in Chinese folk religion); God
- —上天sky; the heavens; God; the Lord; the Creator; the Supreme Being; ascension (into heaven)
- —上棟raising the ridgepole
- —上騰advance; rise; jump
- —上納payment (to the government, authorities, etc.); land tax (often paid in rice); tribute
- —上馬excellent horse
- —上白first-class rice
- —上半first half; upper half
- —上番being on duty
- —上表memorial to the emperor
- —上品Buddhism's highest paradise
- —上物high-quality goods; choice goods
- —上文the foregoing; the forgoing