Kanji1 / 9
段 kanji
grade, steps, stairs
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ダンタン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 段
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —前段preceding paragraph; first part
- —全段the whole page; the entire column
- —段差difference in grades (e.g. in go, shoji, etc.); difference in level (e.g. road, footpath); ramp; steps; bump (in road)
- —中段half-way up a slope or stairway; landing; center of three (horizontal) columns; middle guard position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)
- —別段particular; special; (not) particularly; (not) especially
- —下段lower tier; lower step; lower column; lower berth; bottom shelf; low position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)
- —算段trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing
- —段丘terrace; bench (in geography)
- —段物musical (dramatic) piece in several acts; type of koto solo; lively type of shamisen song
- —後段latter or second part
- —段平broadsword; sword
- —段袋large cloth sack; baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)
- —昇段promotion
- —高段highly ranked
- —段位dan rank (in martial arts, go, etc.); advanced rank; grade of black belt
- —甍段corbie-step; corbel gable; crowsteps
- —数段several steps; much (better, higher, etc.); several cuts (above)
- —あ段row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "a"
- —い段row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "i"
- —う段row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "u"