King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

階 — Chinese character

階
jiē
stairs, steps; degree, rank

Pinyin
jiē
Radical
170 ⾩ (Mound)
Strokes
11
Components
阝 皆
Formation
pictophonetic — hill; meaning component 阝; sound component 皆
Simplified
阶
Japanese
階 as a kanji

階 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 5 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 2

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.