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梯

tī

HSK 3 Character

What 梯 means

1. bound formladder; stairs

Example sentences

• 电梯在哪里？
  Where is the elevator?
• 扶梯在哪儿？
  Where is the escalator?
• 电梯又坏了。
  The elevator's out again.
• 他爬上了楼梯。
  Tā páshàng le lóutī.
  He climbed the stairs.
• 你们有电梯吗？
  Do you have an elevator?
• 搭乘电梯到五楼。
  Dāchéng diàntī dào wǔ lóu.
  Take the elevator to the fifth floor.

Words starting with 梯

• 梯子tī ziladder; stepladder; (net slang) VPN or other tool used to circumvent internet censorship
• 梯田tī tiánstepped fields; terracing
• 梯队tī duìechelon (military formation); (in an organization) group of persons of one level or grade
• 梯形tī xíngtrapezoid; ladder-shaped; terraced
• 梯己tī jiintimate; private saving of family members
• 梯度tī dùgradient
• 梯板tī bǎngangplank; gangway
• 梯次tī cìechelon; tier; batch (in a sequence); in succession; tier by tier…
• 梯级tī jístair; rung of a ladder
• 梯也尔Tī yě ěrAdolphe Thiers
• 梯恩梯tī ēn tīTNT (trinitrotoluene) (loanword)
• 梯度回波tī dù huí bōgradient echo
• 梯式配股tī shì pèi gǔladdering (of stock sales)
• 梯次队形tī cì duì xíngechelon formation (military)
• 梯恩梯当量tī ēn tī dāng liàngTNT equivalent
• 梯氏鸫Tī shì dōng(bird species of China) Tickell's thrush (Turdus unicolor)

Words containing 梯

• 电梯diàn tīelevator; escalator
• 楼梯lóu tīstair; staircase
• 阶梯jiē tīflight of steps; (fig.) stepping stone; way to reach the goal of
• 楼梯口lóu tī kǒuhead of a flight of stairs
• 扶梯fú tīladder; staircase; escalator
• 滑梯huá tī(children's) sliding board; a slide
• 自动扶梯zì dòng fú tīescalator
• 人梯rén tīhuman ladder (formed to help sb climb a wall etc); (fig.) person who sacrifices himself…
• 天梯tiān tīstairway to heaven; high mountain road; tall ladder on a building or other large structure
• 客梯kè tīpassenger elevator; passenger lift
• 旋梯xuán tīspiral stairs; winding stairs (gymnastic equipment)
• 盘梯pán tīspiral staircase
• 船梯chuán tīship's ladder
• 货梯huò tīfreight elevator; goods lift
• 软梯ruǎn tīrope ladder
• 云梯yún tī(military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading)…
• 坐电梯zuò diàn tīto take an elevator
• 奥塞梯Ào sài tīOssetia (ethnolinguistic region in the Caucasus Mountains)
• 楼梯台lóu tī táistaircase balcony; landing
• 楼梯间lóu tī jiānstaircase; flight of stairs
• 防火梯fáng huǒ tīfire escape
• 南奥塞梯Nán Ào sài tīSouth Ossetia
• 曲尺楼梯qū chǐ lóu tīstaircase with right-angled turn; L-shaped staircase
• 温度梯度wēn dù tī dùtemperature gradient

Characters built on 弟

These share the phonetic component 弟 (dì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 递dìto hand over; to pass on; to deliver; (bound form) progressively; in the proper order
• 剃tìto shave
• 涕tìtears; nasal mucus
• 睇dì(literary) to cast a sidelong glance; (dialect) to see; to look at
• 锑tīantimony (chemistry)
• 娣dìwife of a younger brother
• 鹈tíused in 鹈鹕
• 悌tìto do one's duty as a younger brother

Characters that look like 梯

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 样yàngmanner; pattern; way
• 棒bàngstick; club; cudgel
• 棋qíchess; chess-like game; a game of chess
• 禅chándhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 摒bìngto discard; to get rid of
• 娣dìwife of a younger brother

Sounds the same

Read tī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 踢to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
• 剔to scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out
• 体used in 体己; Taiwan pr. tǐ
• 锑antimony (chemistry)
• 擿to select; to nitpick; to expose
• 䴘used in 䴙䴘