層

See also 层

Translingual

shinjitai	層
simplified	层
traditional	層

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 尸 + phonetic 曾

Han character

層 (radical 44 尸+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸金田日 (SCWA), four-corner 7726₆)

1. story, layer, floor, stratum

References

• KangXi: page 303, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7798
• Dae Jaweon: page 601, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 981, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5C64

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Cantonese

Hanzi

層 (simplified 层, Yale chang4)

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Japanese

Kanji

層 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: かさなる (kasanaru), かさ (kasa)

Synonyms

• 階層 (かいそう, kaisō)
• 段階 (だんかい, dankai)

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Korean

Hanja

層 (hangeul 층, revised cheung, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŭng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

層 (simplified 层, pinyin céng (ceng2), Wade-Giles ts'eng²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

層 (tằng, tầng, tàng, từng)