RJT 7 上・下・手

４０００ years ago, this was a dot over a line. But that's too hard to chisel in stone. It is pronounced うえ and it means up or above.

• 上

• 下

４０００ years ago, this was a dot below a line. But that's too hard to chisel in stone. It is pronounced した and it means below or down.

• 上

• 下

Practice writing うえ

Pratice writing 下（した）

Transitive vs. Intransitive！

Groups:

(a) 上がる（あがる）

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(b) 上げる（あげる）

,

(c) 下がる（さがる）

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(d) 下げる（さげる）

• intransitive 下

• Raise your hand

• I'll bring the plates down off the table

• transitive 下

• I went up to the next grade level

• Please eat (I offer up to you)

• This is sagging

• I got up out of the water

• Intransitive 上 (no direct object)

• Transitive 上

• I'm putting this up on the shelf

Nobody writes the kanji nowadays! BUT ください　literally means, "Please give down to me" (for I am humble and I am asking you to be so kind). How is it written in old books?

• 下さい

• 上さい

Match the following

• 上田

• かわかみ　a name

• 川上

• じょうえいちゅう("up-reflection-middle" - Now Playing

• 上映中

• うえだ　a name

• 下町

• したみず　"down water" - sewage

• 下水

• したまち　down town (literally)

Does this look like a hand？I think of it like a skeleton hand. It's mostly pronounced て and it means hand or arm.

Please raise your hand

• を

• ください（下さい）

• 手（て）

• 上げて（あげて）

To be good at something is to have the "upper hand"

• 手

• じょう

• 上

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• (Wayground needs three columns)

• ず