登る
のぼる
hepburn noboru
to climb, to go up
Part of speech · godan-verb
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 山に登ります。I climb a mountain.
- 太陽が昇ります。The sun rises.
Collocations
登る (noboru, climb)昇る (noboru, ascend — sun / status)上る (noboru, go upward)山登り (yamanobori, mountain climbing)日が昇る (hi ga noboru, the sun rises)
Mnemonic
登る · 昇る · 上る — all read noboru but the kanji split meanings. Canonical Japanese homophonic verb. Kanji split: 登る (climb with effort / tools — mountains, stairs, trees) — yama ni noboru (climb a mountain) / 昇る (natural ascent — celestial, status) — taiyou ga noboru (sun rises), shoushin (promotion) / 上る (general upward — paths, upstream) — kawa wo noboru (go upstream), kaidan wo noboru (climb stairs). One pronunciation, kanji-level disambiguation — the precision of Japanese script. Korean "oreuda" and Chinese 登 / 升 / 上 split similarly but Japanese uses orthography. PATCH-4 v3 note: kanji-disambiguated homophones form a cluster matrix.
Quick check
Which kanji of noboru fills "taiyou ga ___"?