音おん階かいTop 40000MeaningsNoun1. scaleKanji used音sound階floor (of a building)Pitch accentおんかいUsed in vocabulary五ご音おん音おん階かいpentatonic scaleNoun長ちょう音おん階かいmajor scaleNoun全ぜん音おん階かいdiatonic scaleNoun短たん音おん階かいminor scaleNoun琉りゅう球きゅう音おん階かいOkinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)Noun陽よう音おん階かいanhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)Noun陰いん音おん階かいhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing semitones)Noun都みやこ節ぶし音おん階かいmiyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)Noun民みん謡よう音おん階かいfolk scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, so, la, ti, re)Noun律りつ音おん階かいritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)Noun自し然ぜん的てき短たん音おん階かいnatural minor scaleNoun全ぜん音おん音おん階かいwhole-tone scaleNounExamples1レッスンの時ときは毎まい日にち音おん階かいを歌うたっていたのを覚おぼえています。I remember singing scales every day during music lessons.