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階 kanji
storey, stair, counter for storeys of a building
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
カイ
Kun readings
きざはし
Variant forms
堦Words with 階
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —長音階major scale
- —二階家two-storey house; two-story house
- —半音階chromatic scale
- —表二階second floor front room
- —全音階diatonic scale
- —職階制job ranking system
- —短音階minor scale
- —総二階full two-story house
- —下の階lower floor
- —階級性class system
- —最上階top floor
- —陽音階anhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)
- —陰音階hemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing semitones)
- —律音階ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)
- —階層化stratification; hierarchization; layering; tiering
- —前段階preliminary step; first step
- —階段室stairwell; stair hall; staircase
- —全段階all stages; every level; entire sequence
- —裏階段back stairs
- —最下階bottom floor; lowest floor