桁
桁: digit
digit; column; beam
10 strokesSecondary · Stage 4 (about 2級)in 5 words here
Readings
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Kun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
計算で桁を間違えて、答えが十倍になってしまった。
I got the digit wrong in the calculation, and the answer came out ten times too big.
彼の収入は、私たちとは桁違いだ。
His income is on a completely different level from ours.
洪水で、古い橋の橋桁が流されてしまった。
The girders of the old bridge were washed away in the flood.