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梯

梯

Translingual

Han character

梯 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木金弓竹 (DCNH), four-corner 48927, composition ⿰木弟)

References

  • KangXi: page 531, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14881
  • Dae Jaweon: page 919, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1220, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+68AF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 梯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梯 *tʰiːl
睇 *tʰiːl, *diːls
涕 *tʰiːlʔ, *tʰiːls
挮 *tʰiːlʔ
鬀 *tʰiːls, *diːls
剃 *tʰiːls
綈 *diːl
蕛 *diːl
稊 *diːl
苐 *diːl
鵜 *diːl
銻 *diːl
鮷 *diːl
罤 *diːl
弟 *diːlʔ, *diːls
娣 *diːlʔ, *diːls
悌 *diːlʔ, *diːls
第 *diːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰiːl) : semantic 木 ‎(“wood, tree”) + phonetic 弟 ‎(OC *diːlʔ, *diːls) – a wooden ladder.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 梯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 土雞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰɛj/
Li
Rong		 /tʰei/
Wang
Li		 /tʰiei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 梯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤ[ə]j/
English stairs

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 梯
Reading # 1/1
No. 2279
Phonetic
component		 弟
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 梯
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰiːl/

Definitions

梯

  1. ladder; steps; stairs
  2. ladder-shaped object
  3. to climb
  4. to lean against

Compounds

  • 人梯
  • 去梯言
  • 回旋梯
  • 天梯
  • 太平梯 (tàipíngtī)
  • 安全梯
  • 扶梯 (fútī)
  • 抽梯子
  • 拔短梯
  • 搭梯子
  • 摺梯／折梯
  • 木拐梯子
  • 梯凳
  • 梯媒
  • 梯子 (tīzi)
  • 梯山
  • 梯山航海
  • 梯己
  • 梯形 (tīxíng)
  • 梯恩梯
  • 梯桄
  • 梯橋／梯桥
  • 梯次
  • 梯氣／梯气
  • 梯河
  • 梯田
  • 梯級／梯级
  • 梯航
  • 梯衝／梯冲
  • 梯隊／梯队
  • 樓梯／楼梯 (lóutī)
  • 氣壓梯度／气压梯度
  • 滑梯 (huátī)
  • 滑稽突梯
  • 登梯
  • 登雲梯／登云梯
  • 盤梯／盘梯
  • 禍梯／祸梯
  • 突梯
  • 突梯滑稽
  • 第三梯隊／第三梯队
  • 等腰梯形
  • 緪梯
  • 繩梯／绳梯
  • 翻梯子
  • 胡梯
  • 航海梯山
  • 舷梯
  • 軟梯／软梯
  • 鉤梯／钩梯
  • 階梯／阶梯 (jiētī)
  • 雲梯／云梯 (yúntī)
  • 雲梯車／云梯车
  • 電扶梯／电扶梯
  • 電梯／电梯 (diàntī)
  • 飛梯／飞梯
  • 魚梯／鱼梯

Japanese

Kanji

梯

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

梯 • ‎(je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune-Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

梯 (thê)

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