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See also: 级

Traditional 級
Simplified 级
Japanese 級
Korean 級

級 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+4 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 糸+3 in mainland China and Japanese, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 女火弓竹水 (VFNHE), four-corner 27947, composition ⿰糹及)

| | Old Chinese | | | -------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | | 趿 | *sqʰɯːb | | 鈒 | *sqʰɯːb, *sqʰrɯb | | 靸 | *sqʰɯːb, *sqʰaːb | | 馺 | *sqʰɯːb | | 砐 | *ŋɡɯːb | | 魥 | *ŋɡɯːb, *kʰab | | 扱 | *skʰrɯːb | | 笈 | *skʰrɯːb, *ɡrab, *ɡab, *ɡrɯb | | 衱 | *ɡrab, *kab | | 极 | *ɡrab, *ɡab | | 昅 | *ɡab | | 雭 | *sqʰrɯb | | 急 | *krɯb | | 級 | *krɯb | | 汲 | *krɯb | | 芨 | *krɯb | | 伋 | *krɯb | | 彶 | *krɯb | | 及 | *ɡrɯb | | 岌 | *ŋɡrɯb | | 吸 | *qʰrɯb |

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *krɯb): semantic 糹 (“thread”) + phonetic 及 (OC *ɡrɯb). According to Shuowen Jiezi, the original meaning was referred to a "sequence" related to silk (絲的次第), however Xu Shen didn't specify the exact kind of sequence he was talking about.

trad. 級
simp. 级

Note:

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 級
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) jí
MiddleChinese ‹ kip ›
OldChinese /*k(r)əp/
English degree, grade
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 級
Reading # 1/1
No. 5659
Phoneticcomponent 及
Rimegroup 緝
Rimesubdivision 1
CorrespondingMC rime 急
OldChinese /*krɯb/

級

  1. level; rank; grade; class
    電影三級制／电影三级制 [Cantonese] ― din6 jing2 saam1 kap1 zai3 [Jyutping] ― Hong Kong motion picture rating system (literally three-category film rating system)
  2. (education) grade; form
    同級不同班／同级不同班 ― tóng jí bù tóng bān ― to be in the same grade but different classes
  3. step
    拾級而上／拾级而上 ― shíjí'érshàng ― to walk slowly up a flight of steps
  4. (literary) beheaded head
  5. Classifier for steps.
  6. Classifier for level, ranks, grades, etc..

Dialectal synonyms of 年級 (“grade; year (in school)”) [map]

From English cup.

級

  1. (Cantonese) cup; cup size
Shinjitai 級
Kyūjitai[1] 級󠄁級+󠄁?(Adobe-Japan1)
級󠄃級+󠄃?(Hanyo-Denshi)(Moji_Joho)
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級

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Kanji in this term
級
きゅうGrade: 3
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
Q

/kipu/ → /kiɸu/ → */kiwu/ → /kiu/ → /kyuː/.

From Middle Chinese 級 (MC kip).

級(きゅう) • (kyū) ←**きふ** (kifu)?

  1. rank
  2. (school) a class
  3. (typography) a unit equal to 1 H (ha) and 0.25 mm, abbreviated as Q, which happens to be the initial of English quarter; Q is used for font size, while ha is used for spacing
  1. ^ “級”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

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級 (eumhun 등급 급 (deunggeup geup))

  1. hanja form? of 급 (“level; grade”)

級: Hán Nôm readings: cấp, cóp, khớp, cụp

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