阶 階
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 階, the traditional character: 阶 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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我每次去巴黎，都会去圣心大教堂，坐在台阶上，听下面的人唱歌、弹琴。
Every time I go to Paris, I visit the Sacred Heart Basilica, sit on the steps, and listen to the people below singing and playing musical instruments.
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美国是一个自称没有社会阶层的国家。
America likes to claim that it is a "classless" society.