級

See also 级

Translingual

simplified	级
traditional	級

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糹 (“thread”) + phonetic 及

Han character

級 (radical 120 糸+4 in Chinese, 糸+3 in Japanese, in Chinese 10 strokes, in Japanese 9 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓竹水 (VFNHE), four-corner 2794₇, composition ⿰糸及)

1. level, rank, class
2. grade

Descendants

• 级

References

• KangXi: page 918, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27294
• Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3366, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7D1A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

級 (Yale kap1)

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Japanese

Etymology

kipu > kiɸu > *kiwu > kiu > kyuː.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [kjuː]

Noun

級 (hiragana きゅう, romaji kyū, historical hiragana きふ)

1. rank
2. (school) a class

Kanji

級 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go'on: こう (kō, rare)
• Kan'on: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: しな (shina)

Compounds

進級 (しんきゅう, shinkyū) 等級 (とうきゅう, tōkyū) 階級 (かいきゅう, kaikyū) 下級 (かきゅう, kakyū) 上級 (じょうきゅう, jōkyū) 同級生 (どうきゅうせい, dōkyūsei)

高級 (こうきゅう, kōkyū) 比較級 (ひかくきゅう, hikakukyū) 最上級 (さいじょうきゅう, saijōkyū) 級数 (きゅうすう, kyūsū) 等差級数 (とうさきゅうすう, tōsakyūsū) 調和級数 (ちょうわきゅうすう, chōwakyūsū)

収束級数 (しゅうそくきゅうすう, shūsokukyūsū) 等比級数 (とうひきゅうすう, tōhikyūsū) 無限級数 (むげんきゅうすう, mugenkyūsū)

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Korean

Hanja

級
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 급 (revised: geup, McCune-Reischauer: kŭp, Yale: kup)

• Name (hangeul): 등급 (revised: deunggeup, McCune-Reischauer: dŭnggŭp)

Compounds

• 等級 (등급)
• 首級 (수급)
• 一級 (일급)
• 梯級 (제급)

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Mandarin

Noun

級 (traditional, Pinyin jí, simplified 级)

1. [archaic] a measure word for human heads

External links

• Guoyu Cidian (國語辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

級 (cấp, cóp, khớp, cụp, khởi)