升

Meaning

升 centers on a traditional measuring container, specifically a box used for measuring volume, often associated with the unit of about 1.8 liters.

• 升ます

  measuring container; measuring box; measure

• 一升瓶いっしょうびん

  one-shō bottle (approx. 1.8 litres)

• 一升いっしょう

  one shō (approx. 1.8 litres)

• 一升ひとます

  one square on a grid; one cell of a grid

• 一升餅いっしょうもち

  large mochi (usu. used for ceremonies)

• 升しょう

  shō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 litres

• 升割ますわり

  break and run out in billiards (9 ball, 8 ball, etc.)

• 升売りますうり

  selling by volume (esp. using a traditional wooden masu box)

• 升席ますせき

  tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc.

• 升形ますがた

  square (shape)

• 升組ますぐみ

  square framing (in a house, temple, screen, etc.)

• 升酒ますざけ

  alcohol (esp. sake) served in a small wooden box; alcohol (esp. sake) sold in a small wooden box

• 地風升ちふうしょう

  sheng (hexagram 46 of the I Ching: pushing upward)

• 晒菜升麻さらしなしょうま

  bugbane (Cimicifuga simplex)

• 泡盛升麻あわもりしょうま

  Japanese astilbe (Astilbe japonica); false buck's beard

• 犬升麻いぬしょうま

  Japanese bugbane (Cimicifuga biternata)

• 蓮華升麻れんげしょうま

  false anemone (Anemonopsis macrophylla)

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