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阶段

jiē duàn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 階段 Measure word 个

阶段 (jiē duàn) means "stage, phase". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 阶段 means

1. stage
2. section
3. phase
4. period

The characters in 阶段

• 阶jiērank or step; stairs
• 段duànparagraph; section; segment

Example sentences

• 空间科学还在起步阶段。
  Kōngjiān kēxué hái zài qǐbù jiēduàn.
  Space science is still in its infancy.
• 工程的第一阶段已经完成了。
  The first phase of construction has been completed.
• 今天咱们团队还有一个阶段性任务没有完成。
  There's a short-term task to be done for our team today.
• 癌症如果在第一阶段被发现的话是很容易治愈的。
  áizhèng rúguǒ zài dìyī jiēduàn bèi fāxiàn dehuà shì hěn róngyì zhìyù de.
  Cancer can be cured easily if it is found in its first phase.
• 您可以跳过认证过程的第三阶段，直接进入第六阶段。
  You can skip stage three of the certification process and advance immediately to stage six.
• 我们很高兴能再次推出这款游戏，并为系列作品开启全新的阶段。
  We're delighted to bring this game back for the start of a new era for the series.

Words starting with 阶段

• 阶段性jiē duàn xìngspecific to a particular stage (of a project etc); interim (policy etc)…

Words containing 阶段

• 现阶段xiàn jiē duànat the present stage
• 新阶段xīn jiē duànnew level; higher plane

Sounds the same

Read jiē duàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 街段block

Where 阶段 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Organizing, Managing & Procedures (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiē duàn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.