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阶层

jiē céng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 階層

阶层 (jiē céng) means "social class". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 阶层 means

1. social class

The characters in 阶层

• 阶jiērank or step; stairs
• 层céngto pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story

Example sentences

• 中国有日益壮大的中产阶层。
  China has a growing middle class.
• 美国是一个自称没有社会阶层的国家。
  Měiguó shì yī gè zìchēng méiyǒu shèhuìjiēcéng de guójiā.
  America likes to claim that it is a "classless" society.

Words containing 阶层

• 工薪阶层gōng xīn jiē céngsalaried class
• 社会阶层shè huì jiē céngsocial class
• 同步数位阶层tóng bù shù wèi jiē céngsynchronous digital hierarchy; SDH

Where 阶层 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiào–jié (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiē céng correctly.
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