Character · Places
上
うえ ueじょうず jōzuのぼる noboruもがみがわ mogamigawa
above, top
Composition
Origin
An indicative sign: a stroke set above a reference line marks what lies on top.
In the thoughts
- 上手jōzuskilled person
- 上るnoboruto climb
- 最上川MogamigawaMogami River
- 机上kijōon the desk
Proverbs carrying this character
- 001 石の上にも三年 Even a stone grows warm if you sit on it for three years.
- 011 上手の手から水が漏れる Even skilled hands let water slip through.
- 013 好きこそものの上手なれ What one loves, one will do well.
- 149 船頭多くして船山に上る Too many boatmen pull the boat up the mountain.
- 162 五月雨をあつめて早し最上川 Gathering the rains of June, how swiftly flows the Mogami.
- 233 夏嵐机上の白紙飛び尽す Summer gale — every blank page on the desk blown away.
- 278 頭の上の蠅を追え First chase the flies above your own head.
- 298 天は人の上に人を造らず人の下に人を造らず Heaven creates no man above other men, nor any man below.