[台阶 / 臺階, tái jiē, ㄊㄞˊ ㄐㄧㄝ]flight of steps (leading up to a house); step (over obstacle); bench; fig. way out of an embarrassing situation#8479[Add to Longdo]
[かい, kai](n, n-suf) (1) storey; story; floor; (n) (2) (See 階・きざはし・1) stairs; (n, n-suf) (3) stage (in chronostratigraphy); (ctr) (4) counter for storeys and floors of a building; (P)#1097[Add to Longdo]
[きざはし;きだはし(ok);はし(階)(ok), kizahashi ; kidahashi (ok); hashi ( kai )(ok)](n) (1) (はし refers to the stairs leading from a building to a garden) (See 階段) stairs; (2) (きざはし only) stairs at the front of a noh stage#1097[Add to Longdo]
[はしかくし;はしがくし, hashikakushi ; hashigakushi](n) (See 寝殿造り, 向拝) pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in an classic aristocratic villa[Add to Longdo]