[だん, dan] (n) (1) step; stair; (flight of) steps; (row of) stitches; columns (of print); (2) grade; rank; level; (ctr) (3) counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); (P) #965
[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
[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
[かいだん, kaidan] (n) stairs; stairway; staircase; (P) #6034
[かいすう, kaisuu] (n) number of stairs or stories (storeys) #16832
[baikore-ta-] (n) bicycle escalator (slim conveyor belt beside a flight of stairs)
[うこんのたちばな, ukonnotachibana] (n) (See 紫宸殿, 左近の桜) tachibana tree west of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace)
[したのへや, shitanoheya] (n) downstairs room
[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
[かいだんのふきぬけ, kaidannofukinuke] (n) stairwell
[かいだんをのぼる, kaidanwonoboru] (exp, v5r) to go up the stairs
[かいだんホール, kaidan ho-ru] (n) stairwell
[かいだんしつ, kaidanshitsu] (n) staircase
[かいだんしょうこうき, kaidanshoukouki] (n) stairlift; (home) chair lift
[かいてい, kaitei] (n) (1) (See 階段) stairs; (2) (See 段階) rank; grade; gradations; step; (3) guide; guidebook; (4) slanted ladder (exercise equipment)
[かけおりる, kakeoriru] (v1) to run down (stairs, etc.)
[かけのぼる, kakenoboru] (v5r) to run (up hill, stairs, etc.)
[けいえん, keien] (n, vs) (1) pretending to respect someone while in fact staying distant from him; (2) keeping at a distance; (3) kicking upstairs; giving a batter an "intentional walk"; (P)
[ごはい;こうはい(向拝), gohai ; kouhai ( kou hai )] (n) pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or temple
[おりぐち;おりくち, origuchi ; orikuchi] (n) top of a flight of stairs; exit involving a descent (e.g. from a bus)
[さこんのさくら, sakonnosakura] (n) (See 右近の橘, 紫宸殿) cherry tree east of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace)
[まつりあげる, matsuriageru] (v1, vt) to set up (in high position); to kick upstairs
[あがりだん, agaridan] (n) staircase; doorsteps
[のぼりぐち, noboriguchi] (n) starting point for an ascent (mountain, stairs, etc.)
[ふきぬき, fukinuki] (n) stairwell
[ちゅうだん, chuudan] (n) half-way up a slope or stairway; landing; center of three (horizontal) columns (of print) (centre)
[はしご(P);ていし, hashigo (P); teishi] (n) (1) ladder; (2) stairs; (n, vs) (3) (はしご only) going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping); (P)
[はしごだん, hashigodan] (n) step; stair; staircase
[ふみだん, fumidan] (n) step; (flight of) stairs
[ふみめん;ふみづら, fumimen ; fumidura] (n) tread (of a wheel); step (of a stair)
[にかい, nikai] (n) second floor; upstairs; (P)
[しらすばしご, shirasubashigo] (n) (See 白洲・2) stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage
[ひじょうかいだん, hijoukaidan] (n) emergency staircase; emergency stairs
[ふせなが, fusenaga] (n) going (e.g. of a flight of stairs); length
[おどりば, odoriba] (n) (1) dance hall; dance floor; (2) landing (stairs); (3) leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation; cooling-off period; lull; plateau; (P)
[らせんかいだん, rasenkaidan] (n) spiral staircase