Japanese Dictionary
Find Kanji by radicals
Find Kanji by selecting its radicals below.
- Reading and JLPT level
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地上
- Kana Reading
- ちじょう
- Romaji
- chijō
- Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
- Meaning
- above ground
- Example sentence
- 暖かい軽い空気は山越えすると上空に上昇し、地上には下りてこないことなど、風は地形によって変わります。 When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
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Examples of 地上, ちじょう in a sentence
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暖かい軽い空気は山越えすると上空に上昇し、地上には下りてこないことなど、風は地形によって変わります。
When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
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An office building, with 22 stories above ground and 2 below, is under construction.
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人が肉体を持ち、地上に生まれたからといって、地上のことを全て理解するわけではないのと同様に、死んだからといって霊的世界を全て理解しているわけでもないのです。
Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.
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人が肉体を持ち、地上に生まれたからといって、地上のことを全て理解するわけではないのと同様に、死んだからといって霊的世界を全て理解しているわけでもないのです。
Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.
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The leaves fell to the earth.
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長年の間、私は美だけが人生に意義を与えてくれるものであり、このごみごみした地上で次々と引き継がれる世代に課せられる唯一の目的とは、時々芸術家を生み出すことだと思っていた。
For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.
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