Kanji1 / 12
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
- —中流階級middle class
- —搾取階級exploiting class; exploiting classes
- —貴族階級noble class; nobility
- —発生段階developmental stage
- —社会階層social class; social strata; social scale
- —栄養段階trophic level
- —十三階段gallows
- —七音音階heptatonic scale; seven note scale; heptachord
- —社会階級social class
- —下り階段descending staircase
- —上り階段ascending staircase
- —試作段階trial stage; experimental phase; prototype stage
- —階段箪笥chest of drawers that also function as stairs
- —回り階段winder staircase
- —階差数列sequence of differences
- —地下１階first basement floor; first floor underground; lower ground floor
- —避難階段fire escape (staircase); emergency stairs
- —二重階乗double factorial
- —段階分けstaging (e.g. medical treatment); phasing
- —労働者階級working class