Illustration: At a rice merchant’s counter, a clerk draws a straight wooden leveling bar across the rim of a square measuring box filled with rice. Every grain rising above that fixed height tumbles back into the surrounding bin, leaving the permitted measure exactly flush with the rim.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

上じょう限げん

jougen

upper limit

Example sentences

  1. レポート点てんの上限じょうげんを10点てんとします。

    The highest amount of points possible on reports is 10 points.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. トムはクレジットカードの上限じょうげんに達たっしてしまった。

    Tom maxed out his credit card.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 自然数しぜんすうには上限じょうげんはない。

    There is no limit in natural numbers.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 上限

  • 上above; upOnジョウ・ショウ・シャンKunうえ・うわ-・かみ
  • 限limit; restrictOnゲンKunかぎる・かぎり

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