Korean Word Entry
音階| Hangul: | 음계 |
| Revised Romanization: | eumgye |
| Definition: | (music) musical scale |
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Chinese characters used in this word
| 音 | sound, noise, tone, pitch, pronunciation, Kangxi radical 180 |
Readings
| Mandarin: | ㄧㄣ (yīn) |
| Cantonese: | jam1 |
| Japanese: | オン (on)、 イン (in)、 -ノン (-non) / おと (oto)、 ね (ne) |
| Korean: | 음 (eum) |
| Vietnamese: | âm |
| 階 | storey, stair, counter for storeys of a building, stairs, steps, rank, degree |
Readings
| Mandarin: | ㄐㄧㄝ (jiē) |
| Cantonese: | gaai1 |
| Japanese: | カイ (kai) / きざはし (kizahashi)、 はしご (hashigo)、 しな (shina) |
| Korean: | 계 (gye) |
| Vietnamese: | giai |
Variants
| Simplified Chinese form: | 阶 |
| Semantic variant form: | 堦 |