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昇 kanji
rise up
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
のぼる
Variant forms
曻Words with 昇
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1昇進Popularpromotion; advancement; rising in rank
- N1上昇Popularrising; ascending; climbing
- —昇格Popularpromotion; raising of status
- —昇級Popularpromotion; advancement
- —昇給Popularsalary raise
- —昇順ascending order
- —昇天ascension (into heaven); the Ascension; death; rising to heaven
- —昇任promotion; advancement
- —昇降ascending and descending; going up and down
- —昇汞mercury chloride; corrosive sublimate
- —昇段promotion
- —昇華sublimation; sublimation (of an impulse); sublimation (i.e. transforming into a purer or nobler form)
- —昇殿entry into the sanctum of a shrine or temple; entry to the imperial court (in the Heian period)
- —昇叙promotion; advancement
- —定昇regular (annual) pay raise
- —離昇take-off (of an aircraft); lift-off (of a spacecraft, rocket, helicopter); blast-off
- —昇竜rising dragon; great dash
- —昇冪ascending powers
- —昇温temperature increase; rise in temperature; warming; heating
- —湧昇upwelling