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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

EntryCommonJLPT N5
うえ上ue

  1. Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

    above; over; up

    飛行機は山の上を飛んだ。
    The plane flew over the mountain.

  2. Noun

    top; summit; upper part; head (e.g. of a staircase)

  3. surface; on (top of)

  4. Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

    the above (in a piece of writing); earlier part

  5. Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Noun

    superior; better; higher (position, rank, etc.); upper (class)

  6. elder; older; senior

  7. Noun

    with respect to ...; in terms of; as far as ... is concerned; when (e.g. drunk)

    as ...上で(は) or ...上の

  8. besides ...; in addition to ...; on top of ...; as well as ...

    as ...上(に)

  9. after ...; upon ...; on ...; with (e.g. full awareness); as a result of ...

    as ...上(で)

  10. since ...; now that ...; because ...

    as ...上は

  11. Suffix

    honorable; venerable; dear

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) languageafter a person of higher statussee 父上

  12. Noun

    emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo

    Archaic

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Characters in this word

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上
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

above, up

Kun
うえue-うえueうわ-uwaかみkamiあ.げるageru-あ.げるageruあ.がるagaru-あ.がるagaruあ.がりagari-あ.がりagariのぼ.るnoboruのぼ.りnoboriのぼ.せるnoboseruのぼ.すnobosuたてまつ.るtatematsuru
On
ジョウjouショウshouシャンshan
Strokes
3
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
35 of 2500
Radical
一 one

Built from

一卜

Used in names as

あおいaoiあげageいiかkaかきkakiかずkazuかんkanこうkouのぼりnoboriほつhotsu

Words starting with 上Words ending in 上Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
4-3-2SKIP code
2m1.1The Kanji Dictionary
2110.0Four corner code
1272deroo
4e0aUnicode hex code
1-30-69JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
798Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
10New Nelson (John Haig)
3404New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4212Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2128Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2876Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
49Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
50Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
21A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
47Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
29Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
13Morohashi
37A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
32Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
32Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
20sakade
5Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
23henshall3
12Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
29crowley
31Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.14busy_people
6Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
49Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
shang4, shang3Pinyin reading
sangKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)