Illustration: At a community-center stacking contest, two columns of identical wooden blocks stand side by side on the same table. One participant has finished a respectable column and rests a hand proudly beside it. The other carefully adds another block to a column that already stands several blocks higher.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

上うわ回まわる

uwamawaru

to exceed, to surpass

Example sentences

  1. 所得税しょとくぜいは控除額こうじょがくを上回うわまわるいかなる所得しょとくにもかかる。

    An income tax is levied on any income that exceeds deductions.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれの出費しゅっぴは収入しゅうにゅうをはるかに上回うわまわっている。

    His expenses exceed his income by far.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしの学校がっこうの成績せいせきは平均へいきんをかなり上回うわまわっていた。

    My work at school was well above average.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 上回

  • 上above; upOnジョウ・ショウ・シャンKunうえ・うわ-・かみ
  • 回-times; roundOnカイ・エKunまわる・まわす・まわし-

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