漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
段: grade, steps
Also: stairs
- 耑(sound)
- 殳lance shaft(meaning)
殳 carries the meaning · 耑 gives the sound
One reading, and the words that use it
ダンdan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 段階だんかいstage, level
- 段落だんらくparagraph
- 段々畑だんだんばたけterraced fields
- 階段かいだんstairs
- 石段せきだんstone steps
- 手段しゅだんmeans, way
- 値段ねだんprice
- 普段ふだんusually
- 初段しょだんfirst grade
- 一段といちだんとfurther, still more [adv.]
Also read タン, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)厂 (sound) + 殳 (meaning)
In the bronze script it is a phono-semantic compound (形聲) and ideogrammic compound (會意): phonetic 厂 + semantic 殳, showing a hammer in hand breaking a stone with fragments coming off; 殳 was the pictogram of a hammer and later was borrowed to indicate a bamboo halberd. Most of the character is identical to 叚.
Source: Wiktionary, 段 (rev. 92200877), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Take action! Imagine a hand gripping a sturdy wooden shaft, ready to strike or move an object with force.”
Connections
Also read ダン
11 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · duàn
Same form: 段 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 段 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 段 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin duàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.