級

• In modern Chinese scripts, the radical component on the left is written 糹 (three dots below 幺).
• In Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the radical component on the left is written 糸 (小 below 幺 but the middle stroke of 小 is written with a 丨 vertical stroke without bottom hook), which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In traditional Chinese and Korean hanja, the 及 component on the right contains 又, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In mainland China (for the traditional form based on Xin Zixing (新字形)), Japanese kanji and Vietnamese Nôm, the 及 component on the right does not contain 又 and is written in 3 strokes (丿 followed by ⿱乛乛 and ㇏).

級 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+4 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 糸+3 in mainland China and Japanese, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 女火弓竹水 (VFNHE), four-corner 2794₇, composition ⿰糹及)

• 𠺻, 𢲩(𫼾)

• 级 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 918, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27294
• Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3366, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7D1A

Historical forms of the character 級
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *krɯb) : semantic 糹 (“thread”) + phonetic 及 (OC *ɡrɯb). According to Shuowen Jiezi, the original meaning was referred to a "sequence" related to silk (絲的次第), however Xu Shen didn't specify the exact kind of sequence he was talking about.

級

1. level; rank; grade; class

   電影三級制／电影三级制 [Cantonese]  ―  din⁶ jing² saam¹ kap¹ zai³   ―  Hong Kong motion picture rating system (literally three-category film rating system)

2. (education) grade; form

   同級不同班／同级不同班  ―  tóng jí bù tóng bān  ―  to be in the same grade but different classes

3. step

   拾級而上／拾级而上  ―  shíjí'érshàng  ―  to walk slowly up a flight of steps

4. (literary) beheaded head
5. Classifier for steps.
6. Classifier for level, ranks, grades, etc..

• (grade; form):

From English cup.

級

1. (Cantonese) cup; cup size

• “級”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	級
Kyūjitai [1]	級󠄁 級+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	級󠄃 級+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←こふ (kofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きふ (kifu, historical)}
• Kun: くび (kubi, 級)、しな (shina, 級)
• Nanori: しな (shina)

/kipu/ → /kiɸu/ → */kiwu/ → /kiu/ → /kyuː/.

From Middle Chinese 級 (MC kip).

• (Tokyo) きゅう (Atamadaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

級(きゅう) • (kyū) ^{←きふ (kifu)?}

1. rank
2. (school) a class
3. (typography) a unit equal to 1 H (ha) and 0.25 mm, abbreviated as Q, which happens to be the initial of English quarter; Q is used for font size, while ha is used for spacing

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

級

Wikisource

級 (eumhun 등급 급 (deunggeup geup))

1. hanja form^? of 급 (“level; grade”)

• 等級 (등급)
• 首級 (수급)
• 一級 (일급)
• 梯級 (제급)

級: Hán Nôm readings: cấp, cóp, khớp, cụp

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