级别 jíbié▶ nivel

Stroke order

级别 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 级 — 6 strokes
• 别 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. (military) rank
2. level
3. grade

Related words

• 上级Superior
• 别墅Villa, chalet
• 别扭antinatural; torpe
• 别致Único
• 差别diferencia
• 派别facción; grupo

级别 is pronounced jíbié and means “nivel”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 级别 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.