段
Reading
Meanings
- step, stair, rung, (flight of) steps
- shelf, layer, tier
- grade, level, class
- dan (degree of advanced proficiency in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.), rank
- paragraph, passage
- column (of print)
- act (in kabuki, joruri, etc.), section, scene
- row of the multiplication table (e.g. five times table)
- stage (in a process), phase, occasion, time, moment, situation
- matter, occasion
- degree, extent
- counter for breaks in written language or speech
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This staircase has ten steps in total.
He holds a third-dan rank in kendo.
That bookshelf is divided into five tiers, with many books lined up on it.
Organizing a text by paragraph makes the content easier to understand.
Before moving on to the next phase of the project, we must carefully evaluate the current results.
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