I Love Kanji階層 (kaisou)
階層 (かいそう, kaisou) is a Japanese noun meaning “class; level”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- かいそう
- Romaji
- kaisou
- Word class
- Noun
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy · noun
Example sentences
階層問題に対する、消費社会論の著である。
It is a literary work confronting the class problem of a consumer society.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Kanji in 階層
階
storey, stair, counter for storeys of a buildingカイ・きざはし · 12 strokes層
stratum, social class, layerソウ · 14 strokesRelated words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 階層.
階かいstorey階段かいだんstairs段階だんかいstage階級かいきゅう(social) class一層いっそうeven more高層こうそうhigh-rise (building)大層たいそうvery
Source: JMdict entry 1203080 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.