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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
- —階段下under the staircase; understairs
- —超階乗superfactorial
- —地上階above-ground floor; ground floor
- —地下階basement floor; underground floor
- —段階的incremental; step-by-step; gradual; stepwise
- —高層階upper floor (of a high-rise building)
- —二階派Nikai faction (of the Liberal Democratic Party); Shisuikai
- —網階調halftone gradation
- —外階段outdoor stairs; external stairway
- —無段階stepless; continuous
- —停止階floors at which an elevator stops
- —多階層multilayer; multilevel
- —位階勲等court rank and honors; court rank and honours
- —下層階級proletariat; lower classes
- —階級闘争class struggle; class warfare; class conflict
- —勤労階級salaried class; working class
- —計画段階planning stage; planning stages
- —五音音階pentatonic scale
- —最終段階final stage
- —初期段階initial stage