日本語道場

Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2

Kanji

N2

Meaningsrise up
On'yomiショウ
Kun'yomiのぼ
Strokes8
Radical

Compounds

  • promotion, raising of status

  • promotion, advancement

  • salary raise

Example sentences

  • The divorce rate is expected to rise.

  • Gradually the interest rate will increase.

  • The average temperature has gone up.

  • Prices are on the upward trend.

  • He was advanced to a managerial post.

  • They took advantage of the stock price increase to raise the idea of building a new factory.

  • The workers came to ask about their pay raises.

  • The process by which substances are turned directly from a solid state into a gas is called sublimation.