Japanese word
上司
じょうし
In your course · Chapter 26
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 907 in the course corpus
Meanings
- supervisor
- (one's) superior
- (one's) boss
- the higher-ups
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
- 司
- On reading:
- シ
- Kun reading:
- つかさど.る
- Meanings:
- director, official, govt office, rule, administer
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))