階層

かいそう

Common word

noun

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class, level, stratum, layer, hierarchy

階	storey, stair, counter for storeys of a building
層	stratum, social class, layer, story, floor

やきゅう

きょうみ

わくに

かいそう

、

ねんれい

Interest in baseball cuts across classes and ages in this country

かいそう

もんだい

たい

、

しょうひしゃかい

ろん

ちょ

It is a literary work confronting the class problem of a consumer society