Japanese word
上
うえ
In your course · Chapter 4
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- archaic, honorific
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 58 in the course corpus
Meanings
- top; above; on
- above
- over
- up
- top
- summit
- upper part
- head (e.g. of a staircase)
- surface
- on (top of)
- the above (in a piece of writing)
- earlier part
- superior
- better
- higher (position, rank, etc.)
- upper (class)
- elder
- older
- senior
- with respect to ...
- in terms of
- as far as ... is concerned
- when (e.g. drunk)
- besides ...
- in addition to ...
- on top of ...
- as well as ...
- after ...
- upon ...
- on ...
- with (e.g. full awareness)
- as a result of ...
- since ...
- now that ...
- because ...
- honorable
- venerable
- dear
- emperor
- sovereign
- shogun
- daimyo
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 上
- On reading:
- シャン、ショウ、ジョウ
- Kun reading:
- -あ.がり、-あ.がる、-あ.げる、-うえ、あ.がり、あ.がる、あ.げる、うえ、うわ-、かみ、たてまつ.る、のぼ.す、のぼ.せる、のぼ.り、のぼ.る
- Meanings:
- above, up
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))