Kanji1 / 14
層 kanji
stratum, social class, layer, story, floor
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ソウ
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
層Words with 層
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —粘土層layer of clay; clay stratum
- —断層帯fault zone; fault belt
- —断層線fault line
- —断層面fault plane; fault surface
- —断層湖fault lake
- —断層谷fault valley
- —断層崖fault scarp; fault escarpment
- —顆粒層granular layer; stratum granulosum
- —上層部top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
- —裕福層wealthy people; the rich
- —岩石層lithological layer; rock strata; rock formation
- —貧困層underclasses; poorest segment of the population; the poor
- —顧客層customer base; constituency; customer segment; patron base; clientele
- —透水層permeable layer; pervious layer
- —上層語superstratum; superstrate
- —基層語substratum; substrate
- —漸層法climax (rhetoric); gradation
- —中高層medium and high-rise (buildings, apartments, etc.)
- —購買層purchasers; customer base; market (for a product)
- —境界層boundary layer