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階

階

See also: 阶

Translingual

Han character

階 (radical 170 阜+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中心心日 (NLPPA), four-corner 71261, composition ⿰阝皆)

  1. stairs, steps
  2. rank, degree

References

  • KangXi: page 1357, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41755
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1861, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4143, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+968E

Chinese

trad. 階
simp. 阶

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 階
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (皆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皆 *kriːl
偕 *kriːl
階 *kriːl
喈 *kriːl
稭 *kriːl, *kriːd
堦 *kriːl
楷 *kriːl, *kʰriːlʔ
鶛 *kriːl
湝 *kriːl, *ɡriːl
蝔 *kriːl, *ɡriːl
鍇 *kriːl, *kʰriːlʔ
揩 *kʰriːl
諧 *ɡriːl
瑎 *ɡriːl
龤 *ɡriːl

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 階
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古諧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨj/
Li
Rong		 /kɛi/
Wang
Li		 /kɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiē
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 階
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤrij/
English steps, stairs

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 階
Reading # 1/1
No. 6417
Phonetic
component		 皆
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 皆
Old
Chinese		 /*kriːl/

Definitions

階

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Japanese

Kanji

階

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Counter

階 ‎(hiragana かい, romaji -kai)

  1. floors (of a building)
    （私 (わたし)の）オフィスは五 (ご)階 (かい)にあります。
    (Watashi no) Ofisu wa go-kai ni arimasu.
    (My) office is on the fifth floor.

Korean

Hanja

階 • ‎(gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

階 (giai)

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