above; up

Builds 132 distinct compound words — ranked #16 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ジョウ・ショウ
訓 kun: うえ・あ.げる・のぼ.る・かみ

Above, and going up. As a suffix it means 'on top of' or 'from the standpoint of' — 以上 more than, 上手 skilful.

The ten most common compounds built on 上. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

132compounds built

3,828times those words occur

#13by productivity alone

#27by how often it turns up

Where 上 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 上. Each one opens its own map.

手hand上手い、上手#10 年year年上#26 仕serve; do仕上げる#79 着wear; arrive上着#93

Words built on 上

上うえ670 uses

上げるあげる548 uses

以上いじょう461 uses

上手いうまい344 uses

上手じょうず334 uses

上司じょうし108 uses

上着うわぎ97 uses

年上としうえ82 uses

上昇じょうしょう62 uses

仕上げるしあげる62 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.