Kanji1 / 12
揚 kanji
raise, elevate, hoist, praise, extol, fry in deep fat
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ヨウ
Kun readings
あげる-あげあがる
Words with 揚
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —揚陸艦艇landing ship
- —気分高揚feeling exhilarated
- —国威発揚enhancing national prestige; expanding national influence
- —士気高揚raising morale; lifting of morale
- —戦意高揚lifting of fighting spirit
- —揚子江鰐Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
- —揚水発電pumped storage; pumped-storage power generation; pumping up generation; pumped-storage hydroelectricity; pumping-up hydraulic power generation
- —景気浮揚reflation; stimulating the economy by increasing the money supply or by reducing taxes
- —抑々揚格anapest; anapaest
- —戦車揚陸艦landing ship, tank; tank landing ship; LST
- —抑揚のないmonotonous
- —揚水発電所pumped storage power plant; pumped storage power station
- —悠揚迫らぬcalm; composed
- —悠揚迫らずcalmly; composedly
- —強襲揚陸艦amphibious assault ship
- —純揚水発電closed-loop pumped-storage power generation
- —揚子江河海豚baiji (Lipotes vexillifer); Chinese river dolphin; Yangtze dolphin
- —昂揚elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge
- —揚枝toothpick; skewer (used to cut and hold sweets served at a tea ceremony); toothbrush (orig. made from a thin willow branch frayed at one end)
- —賞揚praise; admiration; exalting; extolling