(grammar) Short for 上一段活用 (kami ichidan katsuyō): upper monograde conjugation

Alternative spelling of お手上げ: throwing up one's hands: giving up, quitting

(mahjong) drawing the winning tile off the dead wall after declaring a 槓 (kan, “kong”), worth 1 翻 (han, “double”)

(anatomy) a supraspinatus muscle

a superior oblique muscle

a superior rectus muscle

an superior gemellus muscle

theoretical knowledge without practical experience; Literally, “swimming lessons on a tatami floor”

“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration