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Kanji Detail for 階 - "stairs, floor, rank"

階

  • Meaning

    階 means "stairs, floor, rank."

    1. Stairs - Steps for ascending and descending.

    2. Floor - A level of a building; a story.

    3. Rank - A grade or level of status.

    4. Step - A stage in progress; a gradation.

  • Words using 階

    • 段階 だんかい Listen stage; step; phase
    • 一階 いっかい Listen first floor; ground floor; one floor
    • 二階 にかい Listen second floor; upstairs
    • 階段 かいだん Listen stairs; stairway; staircase
    • 階級 かいきゅう Listen (social) class; rank; grade
    • 二階建て にかいだて Listen two-storied building
    • 現段階 げんだんかい Listen present stage; current phase; current rank
    • 階層 かいそう Listen class; level; stratum

  • Four-character idioms with 階

    • 位階勲等 いかいくんとう Listen court rank and honors; court rank and honours
    • 特権階級 とっけんかいきゅう Listen privileged class

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    • Verified meaning: stairs, floor, rank
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read かい, きざはし, しな)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 階

    Surnames 階(かい)Listen 階(きざはし)Listen 階(しな)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    storey; stair; counter for storeys of a building

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    stairs, steps; rank, degree

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    rank or step; stairs

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    stairs, steps; degree, rank

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The path for ascending to a hall. The hall is higher than the ground level, with stepped levels built for ascending. | A ladder. The Analects says: "It is like heaven which cannot be reached by climbing steps." | The rank of an official is called 階. Therefore official positions are called 官階. | A path that leads somewhere. As in what leads to calamity is called 禍階 (cause of disaster), 亂階 (cause of chaos). | A means. As in 無尺寸之階 means having absolutely no means.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kai(カイ) カイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kizahashi(きざはし) きざはし

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    阜 阝 (kozato・kozatohen・oka)

  • Related Keywords

    stairs floor rank staircase step storey level grade order ascending descending flight stage degree hierarchy tier echelon status gradation platform

Sentences including 階

  • I heard him go down the stairs.

  • They heard him come downstairs.

  • The library is on the second floor.

  • A fire broke out on the first floor.

  • They heard him come downstairs.

  • Go upstairs and go to bed.

  • He lives above me.

  • Our library is on the third floor.

  • We heard him come downstairs.

  • They live downstairs.

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