Illustration: During cleaning in a Japanese apartment, a resident stands on a stable two-step stool and wipes the upper portion of a tall wooden cabinet. The cabinet’s full height is visible, including its already polished lower doors and the dusty upper doors still being cleaned.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

上じょう部ぶ

joubu

upper part, top

Example sentences

  1. ページの上部じょうぶの写真しゃしんを見みてごらんなさい。

    Look at the picture at the top of the page.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれは彼女かのじょの両腕りょううでの上部じょうぶをつかんだ。

    He took her by the upper arms.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 戦後せんご、仏壇ぶつだんの左右両側面さゆうりょうそくめんの上部じょうぶに穴あなが開あけられるようになった。

    In postwar days, people began to make holes in the upper sections of both right and left sides of butsudan.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 上部

  • 上above; upOnジョウ・ショウ・シャンKunうえ・うわ-・かみ
  • 部section; bureauOnブ

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