Kanji
N3 9 strokes Grade 6 freq #479

grade, steps, stairs

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

weapon rumata

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

stage; step
means; way
price; cost
even more; still more
stairs; stairway
usual; normal
present stage; current phase
reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage)
step; stair
dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

(corrugated) cardboard
programme; program
triple jump; hop, step and jump
wildly different (in ability, strength, etc.); on another level
keeping an alternative up one's sleeve; two-stage preparation

Example sentences

Normal sleep is made up of two phases.

The next stage was to enter a good arts school.

The quickest means of travel is by plane.

The quickest means of travel is by plane.