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
- —階段を上るto go up the stairs; to climb the stairs
- —階段ホールstairwell
- —クラス階層class hierarchy
- —階層木構造hierarchical tree structure
- —階段昇降機stairlift; (home) chair lift
- —冠位十二階first system to rank officials into 12 levels (603 CE)
- —被搾取階級exploited classes
- —資本家階級capitalist class
- —二段階右折hook turn
- —階層分析法analytic hierarchy process; AHP
- —２段階認証two-factor authentication
- —自然短音階natural minor scale
- —段階を踏むto take steps; to follow the steps (of a procedure)
- —斜格性の階層obliqueness hierarchy
- —二階から目薬frustratingly difficult task; (applying) eyedrops from the second floor; roundabout and inefficient way; something totally ineffective
- —自然的短音階natural minor scale
- —旋律的短音階melodic minor scale
- —和声的短音階harmonic minor scale
- —データの階層data hierarchy
- —データ段階化data staging