阶

variant of 階|阶[jie1]

rank or step / stairs

to introduce / to lie between / between / shell / armor

Character component without intrinsic meaning

steps / flight of steps / step (over obstacle) / fig. way out of an embarrassing situation / bench (geology)

middle class

working class

official rank

salaried class

low-level (computer) language

exploiting class (in Marxist theory)

to confer additional titles on a nobleman

synchronous digital hierarchy / SDH

lit. earthen steps and a small cottage / frugal living conditions (idiom)

lit. earthen steps and a thatched hut / frugal living conditions (idiom)

land-owning classes

petty bourgeois

peasant class (esp. in Marxist theory) / peasantry

peasant class (esp. in Marxist theory); peasantry

heptatonic scale

to extricate oneself / way out

second order / quadratic (math.)

pentatonic scale

low level