台阶 Traditional (Taiwan): 臺階 On the HSK 4 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B2. táijiē ㄊㄞˊ ㄐㄧㄝ steps flight of steps step (over obstacle) fig. way out of an embarrassing situation bench (geology) Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT