noun:

• step; stair; (flight of) steps; (row of) stitches; columns (of print)

noun / counter:

• grade; rank; level

counter:

• counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.)
• dan; senior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc. ➜ 級【きゅう】

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• (a) step
• level; stage
• small degree; small amount

noun:

• step; stride

counter:

• counter for steps

noun / ~する noun:

• step

noun:

• steppe

noun:

• step; pace; stride

noun:

• step; (flight of) stairs

noun:

• step; stair; staircase

noun:

• measure; provision; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove

noun / ~する noun:

• measure; step; action

noun / ~する noun:

• measure; step; dealing with
• medical treatment

noun:

• pace; step; cadence

noun:

• pause; period; step; once; some years ago

noun:

• pace; step

noun:

• interval; step - Music term

noun:

• tread (of a wheel); step (of a stair)

noun / suffix noun:

• progress; pace; carriage; step; stage

noun:

• gait; walk; stride; pace; step; manner of walking
• trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail; movements

~と adverb / adverb:

• more; much more; still more; all the more

noun:

• step; rung; level; rank
• paragraph; passage
• ichidan (verb, verb conjugation) - abbreviation ➜ 一段動詞【いちだんどうし】・一段活用【いちだんかつよう】・五段

noun:

• stairs ➜ 階段
• rank; grade; gradations; step ➜ 段階
• guide; guidebook
• slanted ladder (exercise equipment)

noun:

• board (across a ditch, etc.)
• step; tread; footboard; running board
• pedal (of an organ, etc.); treadle

noun:

• pair of compasses; compass (for drawing circles, etc.) - From Dutch
• (mariner's) compass
• legs; step; gait

noun:

• law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation
• vinaya (rules for the monastic community) - Buddhism term
• Ritsu (school of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 律宗
• lushi (style of Chinese poem) - abbreviation ➜ 律詩
• (musical) pitch - also りち
• six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・呂
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) - abbreviation ➜ 律旋

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to step on; to tread on; to trample on
• to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to visit
• to experience; to undergo
• to follow (rules, principles, etc.); to go through (e.g. formalities); to complete
• to estimate; to guess; to judge; to value; to appraise
• to rhyme ➜ 韻を踏む
• to succeed to (e.g. the throne)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way
• to resign; to retire; to quit; to secede ［のく］

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to step over; to step across; to stride over; to stride across; to cross
• to stretch over; to span; to bridge; to saddle; to straddle