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階

Floor
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingカイ
JLPT level: N2JōyōGrade 3Level 12

Meanings

  1. floor
  2. storey
  3. stair
    階段を上がれば館の上階も見られる。Visitors can climb the stairs to see the exhibits in the upper floors of the museum.wiki
    駅から二ノ瀬集落へは階段で下る。Ninose Village can be reached by taking the stairs down from the station.wiki
  4. counter for storeys of a building
  5. storyRtK
  1. story
  2. stairs
  3. stage (in chronostratigraphy)

Homonyms

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Same reading (かい)
会 · meeting回 · counter for occurrences貝 · shellfish下位 · low rank甲斐 · result (that makes an act worthwhile)買い · buying

Popular Usage

階段二階建て階級階層

Radicals and components

Radical阜mound
Components
How it's built
階
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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storey · pinnacle · parthenon · acropolis · all · compare (比) · spoon (匕) · sitting on the ground · white (白) · dove

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1406

Compound words

階段かいだん
stairs; stairway; staircase
二階建てにかいだて
two-storied building
階級かいきゅう
(social) class; rank; grade
階層かいそう
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
一階いっかい
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
音階おんかい
scale
段階だんかい
stage; step; phase; level; rank
二階にかい
second floor; upstairs
現段階げんだんかい
present stage; current phase; current rank; present grade
中産階級ちゅうさんかいきゅう
middle class; bourgeoisie
１階いっかい
first floor
位階いかい
court rank
階下かいか
lower floor
階梯かいてい
stairs
各階かくかい
each floor
裳階もこし
pent roof (below the true roof of a pagoda, etc.)
階級章かいきゅうしょう
badge of rank
位階勲等いかいくんとう
court rank and honors
下層階級かそうかいきゅう
proletariat
階級闘争かいきゅうとうそう
class struggle
計画段階けいかくだんかい
planning stage
五音音階ごおんおんかい
pentatonic scale
琉球音階りゅうきゅうおんかい
Okinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)

On Reading Examples

彼は箱を２階へ運んだ。かい
He carried the box upstairs.tatoeba
彼は私の上の階に住んでいる。かい
He lives above me.tatoeba
彼は五階までエレベーターに乗った。かい
He took the elevator to the 5th floor.tatoeba
彼の事務所は８階にあります。かい
His office is on the eighth floor.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は箱を２階へ運んだ。
He carried the box upstairs.tatoeba
彼は中流階級の出だ。
He comes from the middle class.tatoeba
彼は上流階級の人だ。
He belongs to the upper class.tatoeba
彼は上流階級に属する。
He belongs to the upper class.tatoeba
階層はこれに準じない場合もある。
The number of stories might not match these.wiki
一部の上流階層は縮緬などを用いていた。
Some upper class people wore fundoshi loincloths made of chirimen (crepe fabrics).wiki

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Floor, step. ⻖ (mound, stairs) + 皆 (all in line) — steps one after another.

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