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上のぼる
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)
1. to ascend; to go up; to climb
2. to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise
usu. 昇る
3. to go to (the capital)
4. to be promoted
5. to add up to
6. to advance (in price)
7. to swim up (a river); to sail up
8. to come up (on the agenda)
Alt. forms
登のぼる
34%
上のぼる
31%
昇のぼる
20%
のぼる
14%
陞のぼる
Kanji used
上
above
Pitch accent
の
ぼる
Top 2500
Conjugations...Used in: 2933
Used in vocabulary (20 in total)
to rise up (e.g. pillar of smoke); to go up
to go up the stairs
to lose one's cool; to blow one's top; to flip one's lid; to get angry
17 more...
Examples (10 in total)
The moon rises in the east.
They began to climb the hill.
Tom started to climb the ladder.
John skied up the slope.
The damage amounted to five million yen.
The higher we go up, the cooler the air becomes.
The Japanese take their shoes off before entering their homes.
He once sailed up the Thames.
We went up so high that we could get the whole view of the city.
They rowed up the river.