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段 (Kangxi radical 79,殳+5, 9 strokes,cangjie input竹十竹弓水 (HJHNE),four-corner7744₇,composition⿰⿰丨亖殳)

• 𠩻,𨺣,𪝒,塅,缎,𢀤,𢝪,𢯫,𣹂,𪦋,㱭,椴,煅,瑖,腶,𪰴,碫,锻 緞,葮,𧎚,毈,𧷃,𧹮,𨉨,𫏗,鍛,𩋦,𩏇,𩤣,𩹨

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 584, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16619
• Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2155, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6BB5

Historical forms of the character段
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In the bronze script it is aphono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*doːns) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): phonetic 厂(OC*hŋaːnʔ, *hŋaːns) + semantic 殳, showing a hammer in hand breaking a stone with fragments coming off (Li Xueqin, 2012); 殳 was the pictogram of a hammer and later was borrowed to indicate a bamboo halberd. Most of the character is identical to叚.

段

1. section;piece;division
2. administrativeunit;department(especially in railways)

   機務段／机务段  ― jīwùduàn  ― locomotive shed (literally "locomotive maintenanceunit")

3. (sports)grade;level (in chess, martial arts, etc.)
4. Classifier for asegment orsection of something that islong: piece;segment
5. Classifier for adistance or aperiod oftime.
6. Classifier forwriting,speech, etc.
7. asurname

   段祺瑞  ― Duàn Qíruì  ― Duan Qirui (Chinese warlord and politician)

The component on the left-hand side of the character can be referred to as段字旁 (duànzìpáng).

• (classifier for a segment or section):(Cantonese, Min)橛 (gyut⁶)

• → Thai:ตอน(dtɔɔn)

• “段”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• (Min Nan pronunciation audio)“段”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2025.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. step
2. rank;grade

• Go-on:だん(dan,Jōyō)
• Kan-on:たん(tan)
• Kun:きたえる(kitaeru)、わかち(wakachi)、きざ(kiza)、きざはし(kizahashi)、きだ(kida)、きた(kita)

FromMiddle Chinese段 (MC dwanH).

• (Tokyo)だん[dáꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [dã̠ɴ]

段(だん)• (dan) 

1. steps (up and down);stairs
2. rating;ranking
3. row;line (of text)
4. (mathematics)multiplicationtable

   12(じゅうに)の段(だん)

   jūni nodan

   12times table

5. (typography) the equivalent to acolumn in Western layout, but that can behorizontal orvertical depending on the writingdirection

   Meronym:行(gyō,“line”)

   段(だん)数(すう)

   dansū

   a column count

   段(だん)間(かん)

   dankan

   column spacing; gutter

段(だん)• (-dan) 

1. (after a number) -thrank, -thdegreeblack belt (inkarate,judo, etc.)
2. asection (horizontal line) in thegojūon table, which consists ofkana that have or historically have had the samevowel

   は行(ぎょう)う段(だん)

   ha-gyō u-dan

   rowha,sectionu (of consonant /h/ and vowel /u/)

3. (typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 1408mils,¹⁴⁰⁸⁄₁₀₀₀in, 128U(U) and 16倍(bai)

• 行(ぎょう)(gyō)

• (Tokyo)たん[táꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [tã̠ɴ]

段(たん)• (tan) 

1. a unit of areal measure equivalent to 300坪(tsubo), now standardised at exactly 120000/121square metres (around 991.7 m²)

• 五(ご)反(たん)田(だ)(Gotanda,a district of Tokyo)

• “^△段”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese段 (MC dwanH). Recorded asMiddle Korean⿰⿰丨亖⿱コ又/단〯(tǎn) (Yale:tan) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

段

段 (eumhun구분단(gubun dan))

1. hanja form^? of단(“step”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[3]

段:Hán Nôm readings:đoạn,đoàn

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