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JLPT N2 · Noun

桁 (keta)

桁 (けた, keta) is a Japanese noun meaning “column; beam”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
けた
Romaji
keta
Word class
Noun
Level
JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. column; beam; girder; crossbeam; spar · noun
  2. digit; decade; order of magnitude · noun

Example sentences

この２桁は省くべきだ。
You should leave out these two lines.
Tatoeba #224065
医者なら６桁の収入は珍しくない。
A six-figure income is not uncommon for physicians.
Tatoeba #190910

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Kanji in 桁

桁
beam, girder, sparコウ・けた · 10 strokes

Source: JMdict entry 1253800 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.