段 — kanji meaning “grade”
段
grade, steps, stairs
- Meanings
- grade, steps, stairs
- On'yomi
- ダン (dan)、タン (tan)
- Kun'yomi
- —
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- 6
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #479 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 79
- Chinese reading
- duàn — Chinese character page
Words with 段
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 段階 | だんかい dankai | stage; step; phase |
| 手段 | しゅだん shudan | means; way; method |
| 値段 | ねだん nedan | price; cost |
| 普段 | ふだん fudan | usual; normal; everyday |
| 階段 | かいだん kaidan | stairs; stairway; staircase |
| 段ボール | だんボール danbooru | (corrugated) cardboard |
| 一段 | いちだん ichidan | even more; still more; much more |
| 段取り | だんどり dandori | programme; program; plans |
| 一段落 | いちだんらく ichidanraku | reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest |
| 段々 | だんだん dandan | gradually; by degrees; little by little |
| 普段着 | ふだんぎ fudangi | everyday clothes; ordinary clothes; casual wear |
| 格段 | かくだん kakudan | dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference); marked |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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