Illustration: In a family kitchen, a child places a tiny round magnet into the tenth consecutive cell of a monthly calendar board. Its thirty empty day compartments follow a conventional seven-column calendar arrangement, with the month beginning in the upper-left cell.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

上じょう旬じゅん

joujun

first ten days of a month

Example sentences

  1. ７月しちがつの上旬じょうじゅんは、海うみに行いくのは早はやいかな？

    I wonder if the first week or so of July is too early to go to the beach.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. トムは１０月じゅうがつ上旬じょうじゅんからここにいます。

    Tom has been here since early October.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 海開うみびらきは毎年まいとし7月がつ上旬じょうじゅん。

    The beaches open in early July every year.

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

Kanji in 上旬

  • 上above; upOnジョウ・ショウ・シャンKunうえ・うわ-・かみ
  • 旬decameron; ten-day periodOnジュン・シュン

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