Kanji N3

段: grade, steps, stairs

段 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning grade, steps, stairs, written with 9 strokes. It is read ダン, タン (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 手段 (しゅだん, means) and 値段 (ねだん, price).

段

Meanings

  • grade
  • steps
  • stairs
Strokes9
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#479 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ダン
  • タン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 段

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 手段しゅだん

    means; way; method; measure

    JLPT N3
  • 値段ねだん

    price; cost

    JLPT N4
  • 階段かいだん

    stairs; stairway; staircase

    JLPT N5
  • 普段ふだん

    usual; normal; everyday; habitual; ordinary

    JLPT N3
  • 段だん

    step; stair; rung; (flight of) steps

    JLPT N3
  • 段階だんかい

    stage; step; phase

    JLPT N2
  • 段々だんだん

    gradually; by degrees; little by little

    JLPT N1
  • 一段いちだん

    even more; still more; much more; further

    JLPT N2

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.