阶段

Character by character

• 阶jiē6 strokesHSK 4 traditional 階stairs, steps; rank, degree
• 段duàn9 strokesHSK 2section, piece, division

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 今天咱们团队还有一个阶段性任务没有完成。

  Jīn tiān zán men tuán duì hái yǒu yī gè jiē duàn xìng rèn wu méi yǒu wán chéng

  There's a short-term task to be done for our team today.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 阶段. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 段duànHSK 2

  paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc

• 手段shǒu duànHSK 5

  method; means (of doing sth); strategy; trick

• 片段piàn duànHSK 7

  fragment (of speech etc); extract (from book etc); episode (of story etc)

• 台阶tái jiēHSK 4

  steps; flight of steps; step (over obstacle); fig. way out of an embarrassing situation; bench (geology)

• 阶级jiē jíHSK 7

  (social) class

• 时段shí duànHSK 7

  time interval; work shift; time slot; the twelve two-hour divisions of the day

• 阶层jiē céngHSK 7

  social class

• 地段dì duànHSK 7

  section; district

• 路段lù duànHSK 7

  stretch of road; section of a highway or railway

• 不择手段bù zé shǒu duàn

  by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously

• 阶梯jiē tīHSK 7

  flight of steps; (fig.) stepping stone; way to reach the goal of

• 段落duàn luòHSK 7

  phase; time interval; paragraph; (written) passage