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

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Chinese

trad.		階
simp.		阶

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiē (jie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai¹
• Min Nan (POJ): kai

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiē
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝ
    • Wade-Giles: chieh¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jie
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaai¹
    • Yale: gāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaai¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑːi̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kai
    • Tâi-lô: kai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kay
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaɪ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaɪ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠɛi/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*kˤrij/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kriːl/

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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Kanji

階

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: かい (kai)
• Kun: きざはし (kizahashi), はしご (hashigo), しな (shina)

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.

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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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