Illustration: Through the open side of a compact factory office building, three connected workplace levels are visible. Many production workers occupy the broad workshop below; a smaller group of supervisors coordinates activity from a middle office; a few executives meet in the upper office.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

階かい層そう

kaisou

social stratum, layer

Example sentences

野球やきゅうへの興味きょうみはわが国くにではあらゆる階層かいそう、年齢ねんれいにわたっている。
Interest in baseball cuts across classes and ages in this country.
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おそらく土豪どごう階層かいそうの家いえの出身しゅっしんであると思おもわれる。
It is believed that he was probably from a local ruling family.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
このとき貴族きぞくの母体ぼたいとなったのは、豪族ごうぞく階層かいそうであった。
The base of the Kizoku was the Gozoku class.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 階層

階storey; stairOnカイKunきざはし
層stratum; social classOnソウ

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