以上

いじょう

... or more, beyond

Mnemonic

A marker put down to mean starting here, and everything stacked above it. The same じょう as 異常, one mora off it: thirty degrees and up, day after day, right through the summer: いじょう.

Worth knowing

Takes in the number itself, 30度以上 includes 30. 以下いか does the same from below.

Built from

以

by means of, from

A person with a mark set beside them, 'starting from here', used to fix a boundary.

上

up, above

A mark sitting above the line.

Also read いじょう

異常 extraordinary, exceptional

Words sharing these kanji

以外 except for 以前 before, ago 以来 since 上げる to raise, to increase 上 up, above 上がる to go up, to rise 立ち上がる to stand up 上手い skilled, good 見上げる to look up 地上 above ground

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