Chinese Character Wiki
梯

tī

ladder

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 弟 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

弟 sound component

弟  Sound component

dì, tì

  

younger brother

Evolution

梯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
梯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

梯  

tī

ladder, steps, stairs; lean; ladder; stairs

Most common words with 梯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

电梯

elevator

楼梯

stair

梯

ladder

梯子

ladder

阶梯

flight of steps

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ˤ[ə]j

thej

tī

stairs


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 19.0774% of movies

1383rd most common character in movies

1672nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+68AF

Shuowen

“梯，木階也。从木，弟聲。”


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