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There are 10 total results for your 上流 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

上流

see styles
shàng liú
    shang4 liu2
shang liu
 jouryuu / joryu
    じょうりゅう
upper class
(1) upper stream; upper course; upper reaches; (can be adjective with の) (2) upstream; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (3) (ant: 下流・2) upper classes; (place-name) Kaminagare
(上流般) ūrdhvasrotas. The flow upwards, or to go upwards against the stream of transmigration to parinirvāṇa. Also 上流般涅槃.

上流川

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 jouryuugawa / joryugawa
    じょうりゅうがわ
(place-name) Jōryūgawa

上流町

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 kaminagarechou / kaminagarecho
    かみながれちょう
(place-name) Kaminagarechō

上流般

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shàng liú pán
    shang4 liu2 pan2
shang liu p`an
    shang liu pan
 jōruhatsu
traverse upwards against the flow

上流家庭

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 jouryuukatei / joryukate
    じょうりゅうかてい
good family; better-class home

上流工程

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 jouryuukoutei / joryukote
    じょうりゅうこうてい
{comp} upstream process; upper process

上流溜池

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 kaminagaretameike / kaminagaretameke
    かみながれためいけ
(place-name) Kaminagaretameike

上流社会

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 jouryuushakai / joryushakai
    じょうりゅうしゃかい
(noun - becomes adjective with の) upper classes

上流社會


上流社会

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shàng liú shè huì
    shang4 liu2 she4 hui4
shang liu she hui
upper class; high society
See: 上流社会

上流階級

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 jouryuukaikyuu / joryukaikyu
    じょうりゅうかいきゅう
(noun - becomes adjective with の) upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 10 results for "上流" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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