Illustration: In the entrance of a Japanese house, a small child stands on the tiled lower floor facing the raised wooden hallway. Exactly one broad step separates the two surfaces.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

一いち段だん

ichidan

one step, one level

Example sentences

  1. 一段いちだん飛とばしで階段かいだんを駆かけ上のぼった。

    I ran upstairs two steps at a time.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれは近所きんじょの人々ひとびとより社会的しゃかいてきに一段いちだん上うえだ。

    He is a cut above his neighbors.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 本堂ほんどうなどのある中心伽藍ちゅうしんがらんより一段いちだん高たかい位置いちに立たつ。

    It was built one step higher than the main buildings of the temple such as Hondo.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 一段

  • 一oneOnイチ・イツKunひと-・ひとつ
  • 段step; gradeOnダン・タン

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