Chinese Character Wiki
阶

jiē

stairs

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 介 represents the sound. Simplified form of 階.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

介 sound component

介  Sound component

jiè

  

to lie between

Evolution

阶 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
阶 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
阶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
阶 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
阶 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
阶 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

阶 (階) 

jiē

stairs, steps; rank, degree; rank or step; stairs

阶 (堦) 

jiē

variant of 階|阶[jiē]

Most common words with 阶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

阶段

stage

台阶

steps

无产阶级

proletariat

阶级

(social) class

阶

stairs

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 16.3864% of movies

1681st most common character in movies

745th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

階

Unicode

U+9636


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License