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桁: digit

digit; column; beam
10 strokesSecondary · Stage 4 (about 2級)in 5 words here

Readings

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けた

Only read けた. Numbers use it for digits (三桁), and 桁違い means 'in a different league', literally off by orders of magnitude.

Key words

桁けたdigit; place
桁違いけたちがいworlds apart
桁外れけたはずれextraordinary
橋桁はしげたbridge girder

Example sentences

I got the digit wrong in the calculation, and the answer came out ten times too big.

His income is on a completely different level from ours.

The girders of the old bridge were washed away in the flood.

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