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昇

Ascend
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingショウ
Kun readingのぼ.る

Verbs with «昇»

上昇する昇る
  1. promotion
  2. raising of status

Radicals and components

Radical日sun
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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sun (日) · day (日) · measuring box · thousand · drop (丶) · ten (十) · needle (丨)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 43

Compound words

彼は昇進を目指して策動している。
He is angling for promotion.tatoeba
彼は昇進をねらっている。
He is out for promotion.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

日が昇る瞬間を見ながら散歩する
ひがのぼるしゅんかんをみながらさんぽするWalking while watching the moment the sun rises.
一緒にジャングルジムを昇る君。そんな君がいたはず。
いっしょにじゃんぐるじむをのぼるきみ。そんなきみがいたはず。You, climbing the jungle gym together with me. There should have been a you like that.
コツコツやってジワジワ上昇
こつこつやってじわじわじょうしょうWorking steadily, gradually moving up.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Rise. 日 (sun) + 升 (go up) — the sun rising.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 昇

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