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step
  1. 1 step, stair, rung, (flight of) steps
  2. 2 shelf, layer, tier
  3. 3 grade, level, class
  4. 4 dan (degree of advanced proficiency in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.), rank
  5. 5 paragraph, passage
  6. 6 column (of print)
  7. 7 act (in kabuki, joruri, etc.), section, scene
  8. 8 row of the multiplication table (e.g. five times table)
  9. 9 stage (in a process), phase, occasion, time, moment, situation
  10. 10 matter, occasion — as ...の段
  11. 11 degree, extent — as ...どころの段ではない, ...という段じゃない, etc.
  12. 12 counter for breaks in written language or speech
N3
JLPT
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#1967
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • I ran upstairs two steps at a time.

    sense 1 · step

  • It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).

    sense 2 · shelf

  • He jumped up the steps three at a time.

    sense 1 · step

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