階級

See also: 阶级

Chinese

rank or step; stairs
 
level; grade; rank; step
trad. (階級) 階 級
simp. (阶级) 阶 级

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 階級 (かいきゅう) (kaikyū, “(social) class”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 階級／阶级 (“class, rank, order”).

Pronunciation

Noun

階級

  1. class (social division based on socio-economic status)
    階級矛盾 / 阶级矛盾  ―  jiējí máodùn  ―  class conflict
    剝削階級 / 剥削阶级  ―  bōxuē jiējí  ―  exploiting class
    階級統治 / 阶级统治  ―  jiējí tǒngzhì  ―  class rule

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
階 級
かい
Grade: 3		 きゅう
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

階級 (hiragana かいきゅう, rōmaji kaikyū, historical hiragana かいきふ)

  1. class (social division based on socio-economic status)

Descendants

Korean

Hanja in this term
階級

Noun

階級 • (gyegeup, McCune-Reischauer: kyegŭp, Yale: kyeykup) (hangeul 계급)

  1. Hanja form? of 계급 (“class”).
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