Can someone tell me what language this is? A friend wrote it on a card and I know he's been studying Chinese for a few years... but all the Chinese characters I look at look nothing like these.

The closest I found was Japanese radical. I don't even know what radical means, but some of them were pretty close.

Bonus: Do the last 3 characters mean/have anything to do with top/go up/rise, mountain/peak, short/length/a little?