steps (up and down); stairs / rating; ranking / row; line (of text) / (mathematics) multiplication table

(grammar) Clipping of 五段活用 (godan katsuyō): quintigrade conjugation

stairs, staircase / ladder, a series of steps to advancement to be followed in order

rise, ascend, go up / go in, enter (a house) / get out (of a pool, etc.) / visit, call (on someone) / be promoted, go up (in social standing) / let up, come to an end / flare up (as in fire)

上がる: rise, go up / 挙がる: be cited / 揚がる: be fried / 和了る: (mahjong) to win

(grammar) a verbal conjugation class consisting of five alternating bases: -a, -i, -u, -e, and -o

step / rank; grade

(after a number) -th rank; -th degree black belt (in karate, judo, etc) / a section (horizonal line) in the gojūon table, which consists of kanas that have or historically have a same vowel

(phonology, orthography, grammar) the first and highest-graded column of the 五十音図 (literally “table of the fifty sounds”), consisting of the ten kana あ/ア (a), か/カ (ka), さ/サ (sa), た/タ (ta), な/ナ (na), は/ハ (ha), ま/マ (ma), や/ヤ (ya), ら/ラ (ra) and わ/ワ (wa)

(phonology, orthography, grammar) the fifth and lowest-graded column of the 五十音図 (literally “table of the fifty sounds”), consisting of the ten kana お/オ (o), こ/コ (ko), そ/ソ (so), と/ト (to), の/ノ (no), ほ/ホ (ho), も/モ (mo), よ/ヨ (yo), ろ/ロ (ro) and を/ヲ (wo)