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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
- —非常階段emergency staircase; fire escape
- —階級政党class party
- —階段教室classroom in tiers
- —階段耕作terrace culture
- —琉球音階Okinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)
- —上流階級upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite
- —階級差別classism; class discrimination
- —段階評価graded on N steps; scored out of N
- —都節音階miyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)
- —民謡音階folk scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, so, la, ti, re)
- —全音音階whole-tone scale
- —階層関係hierarchical relation
- —階層構造layered structure; layered system; stratification; hierarchical structure
- —階層表示hierarchical display
- —制御階層control hierarchy
- —多重階層poly-hierarchy
- —単純階層mono-hierarchy
- —階名唱法solmization
- —震度階級seismic intensity scale
- —階級制度class system; caste system; hierarchical system