Stroke order

段 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹十竹弓水 (HJHNE), four-corner 7744₇, composition ⿰⿰丨亖殳)

• 𠩻, 𨺣, 𪝒, 塅, 缎, 𢀤, 𢝪, 𢯫, 𣹂, 𪦋, 㱭, 椴, 煅, 瑖, 腶, 𪰴, 碫, 锻 緞, 葮, 𧎚, 毈, 𧷃, 𧹮, 𨉨, 𫏗, 鍛, 𩋦, 𩏇, 𩤣, 𩹨

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 584, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16619
• Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2155, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6BB5

Historical forms of the character 段
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In the bronze script it is a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *doːns) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic 厂 (OC *hŋaːnʔ, *hŋaːns) + semantic 殳, showing a hammer in hand breaking a stone with fragments coming off (Li Xueqin, 2012); 殳 was the pictogram of a hammer and later was borrowed to indicate a bamboo halberd. Most of the character is identical to 叚.

段

1. section; piece; division
2. administrative unit; department (especially in railways)

   機務段／机务段  ―  jīwùduàn  ―  locomotive shed (literally "locomotive maintenance unit")

3. (sports) grade; level (in chess, martial arts, etc.)
4. Classifier for a segment or section of something that is long: piece; segment
5. Classifier for a distance or a period of time.
6. Classifier for writing, speech, etc.
7. a surname

   段祺瑞  ―  Duàn Qíruì  ―  Duan Qirui (Chinese warlord and politician)

The component on the left-hand side of the character can be referred to as 段字旁 (duànzìpáng).

• (classifier for a segment or section): (Cantonese, Min) 橛 (gyut⁶)

Others:

• → Thai: ตอน (dtɔɔn)

• “段”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Min Nan pronunciation audio) “段”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. step
2. rank; grade

• Go-on: だん (dan, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)
• Kun: きたえる (kitaeru)、わかち (wakachi)、きざ (kiza)、きざはし (kizahashi)、きだ (kida)、きた (kita)

From Middle Chinese 段 (MC dwanH).

• (Tokyo) だん [dáꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [dã̠ɴ]

段(だん) • (dan) 

1. steps (up and down); stairs
2. rating; ranking
3. row; line (of text)
4. (mathematics) multiplication table

   12(じゅうに)の段(だん)

   jūni no dan

   12 times table

5. (typography) the equivalent to a column in Western layout, but that can be horizontal or vertical depending on the writing direction

   Meronym: 行 (gyō, “line”)

   段(だん)数(すう)

   dansū

   a column count

   段(だん)間(かん)

   dankan

   column spacing; gutter

段(だん) • (-dan) 

1. (after a number) -th rank, -th degree black belt (in karate, judo, etc.)
2. a section (horizontal line) in the gojūon table, which consists of kana that have or historically have had the same vowel

   は行(ぎょう)う段(だん)

   ha-gyō u-dan

   row ha, section u (of consonant /h/ and vowel /u/)

3. (typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 1408 mils, ¹⁴⁰⁸⁄₁₀₀₀ in, 128 U (U) and 16 倍 (bai)

• 行(ぎょう) (gyō)

• (Tokyo) たん [táꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [tã̠ɴ]

段(たん) • (tan) 

1. a unit of areal measure equivalent to 300 坪 (tsubo), now standardised at exactly 120000/121 square metres (around 991.7 m²)

• 五(ご)反(たん)田(だ) (Gotanda, a district of Tokyo)

• “^△段”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

From Middle Chinese 段 (MC dwanH). Recorded as Middle Korean ⿰⿰丨亖⿱コ又/단〯 (tǎn) (Yale: tan) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

段

段 (eumhun 구분 단 (gubun dan))

1. hanja form^? of 단 (“step”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

段: Hán Nôm readings: đoạn, đoàn

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