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
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 段
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —生産手段means of production
- —上段の間room with a raised floor
- —三段落ちthree-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing)
- —発生段階developmental stage
- —交通手段means of transportation; transportation system; way of getting around
- —普段からon a routine basis; regularly; habitually
- —段飛ばしleaping over multiple steps in stairs (e.g. when in a hurry)
- —栄養段階trophic level
- —十三階段gallows
- —下り階段descending staircase
- —上り階段ascending staircase
- —最終手段last resort
- —試作段階trial stage; experimental phase; prototype stage
- —移動手段means of transportation; transport service
- —労働手段means of labor; means of labour
- —階段箪笥chest of drawers that also function as stairs
- —段落記号pilcrow; paragraph mark; paragraph sign
- —回り階段winder staircase
- —避難階段fire escape (staircase); emergency stairs
- —普段使いeveryday use