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階 means 'floor'

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Strokes : 12    Frequency: 537   JLPT: N2    Usefulness: 4    Study set: 4-3    Grade: 3   Intermediate lesson: 37    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 57 words   Used in 169 words   Used in 127 names   Not used as a component
Jōyō (常用)
Common readings
On
   カイ
Additional readings
Kun    きざはし storey, stair, counter for storeys of a building
Name    しな   と   はし
Variants
阶 (Chinese)  
Components
⿰  ⻖ (阜) hill  皆 everyone  
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 階 is used 6 times, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 階 is used 166 times, read 1 way (with 2 variations).
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カイ : 163 words FIND ALL
か い だ ん 0
noun
stairs; stairway; staircase
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はし: 2 words. FIND ALL
は し か く し 3
noun
pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa  (see also: 寝殿造り, 向拝)
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しな: 1 word. FIND ALL
し な 0
Most common form: 品
noun
1. article; item; thing; goods; stock  (esp. 品)
2. quality
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An additional 3 less common words include 階 but the readings have not yet been categorized.
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Additional data
Henshall: 262 (originally: 242)  Joy o' Kanji : 242  Key to Kanji: 108 

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階
カイ    floor   
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皆
カイ   みな everyone   
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比
ヒ   くらべる to compare   
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匕
さじ spoon   
白
ハク   しろい white   しろ    しら-    
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
⻖
hill   
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