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階層 (かいそう): class, level, stratum, hierarchy — Japanese vocabulary

階層 is read かいそう and means "class, level, stratum, hierarchy". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

階層

Reading
かいそう · kaisou
Translation
class, level, stratum, hierarchy
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
かいそうが

Example

階層問題に対する、消費社会論の著である。

かいそうもんだいにたいする、しょうひしゃかいろんのちょである。

It is a literary work confronting the class problem of a consumer society.

Kanji in this word

  • 階 — floor, rank
  • 層 — Stratum, Social Class, Layer

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