階

stone steps

second floor front room

bottom floor; lowest floor

ordination (esp. Catholic)

job ranking

difference

Music

chromatic scale

multistage; multi-step

full two-story house

Architecture

space between floors of a building; space between stories

relative rank accorded the gods of Shintoism

Music

major scale

pent roof (below the true roof of a pagoda, etc.)

Nikai faction (of the Liberal Democratic Party); Shisuikai

Music

diatonic scale

Music

minor scale

all stages; every level; entire sequence

Music

name of a note in a movable do solfège system

Buddhism

rank (of a monk)

job ranking system

height of a storey; floor height

anhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)

hemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing semitones)

ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)