Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
Variants:
rise up
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
826 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 昇給 【ショウキュウ】 salary raise
  • 昇格 【ショウカク】 promotion, raising of status
  • 定昇 【テイショウ】 regular (annual) pay raise
  • 温度上昇 【オンドジョウショウ】 temperature increase, rise in temperature

Kun reading compounds

  • 上る 【のぼる】 to ascend, to go up, to climb, to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun), to rise, to go to (the capital), to be promoted, to add up to, to advance (in price), to swim up (a river), to sail up, to come up (on the agenda)

Readings

Japanese names:
しゅう、 のり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sheng1
Korean:
seung

Spanish

  • elevar
  • levantar
  • alzar

Portuguese

  • ascender

French

  • s'élever
1393 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
841 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2109 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1441 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
596 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
713 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1777 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1909 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1280 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
969 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3068 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1565 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2139 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
42 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13794 Morohashi
2415 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2434 New Nelson (John Haig)
43 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
43 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1189 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3855 2001 Kanji
4c4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
6044.0 Four corner code
1-30-26 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6607 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
weapon, lance
Parts:
grade, steps, stairs
On:
ダンタン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
479 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 段 【ダン】 step, stair, rung, (flight of) steps, shelf, layer, tier, grade, level, class, dan (degree of advanced proficiency in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.), rank, paragraph, passage, column (of print), act (in kabuki, joruri, etc.), section, scene, row of the multiplication table (e.g. five times table), stage (in a process), phase, occasion, time, moment, situation, matter, occasion, degree, extent, counter for breaks in written language or speech
  • 段階 【ダンカイ】 stage, step, phase, level, rank, grade, gradation, order, stairs
  • 特段 【トクダン】 exceptional, unusual, special, especially, exceptionally, unusually
  • 中段 【チュウダン】 half-way up a slope or stairway, landing, center of three (horizontal) columns (of print) (centre)
  • 反 【タン】 variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width), for kimonos: at least 10 m in length, for haori: at least 7.27 m in length, for other clothes: at least 6.06 m in length, 300 tsubo (991.74 meters square, 0.24506 acres), six ken (10.91 m)
  • 反物 【タンモノ】 fabric, cloth, textiles, drapery, dry-goods, piece goods, measure of kimono material
  • 減反 【ゲンタン】 reduction (of crop size), reduction of acreage (under cultivation)
  • 一反 【イッタン】 one-tenth hectare

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
duan4
Korean:
dan

Spanish

  • escalón
  • escalera
  • grado

Portuguese

  • grau
  • passos
  • escada

French

  • étape
  • marche
  • escalier
944 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
931 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
340 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2452 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
911 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
656 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
874 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.18 Japanese for Busy People
362 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
363 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
608 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1139 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1471 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
780 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1059 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1876 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16619 Morohashi
1144 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2991 New Nelson (John Haig)
1859 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2003 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
425 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
891 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2668 2001 Kanji
2s7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-4 SKIP code
7744.7 Four corner code
1-35-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bb5 Unicode hex code