梯

tī

(bound form) ladder; stairs

Wood (木) + sound component (弟) = wooden ladder

The wood radical (木) tells you a ladder is a wooden structure. 弟 mainly contributes the sound tī (close to its reading dì); it carries no special meaning here.

木+弟→梯
弟Younger brotherPhonetic
木WoodSemantic

他爬上梯子,把灯泡换了。

tā pá shàng tī zi,bǎ dēng pào huàn le。

he climbed up the ladder and changed the light bulb.

电梯坏了,我们只能走楼梯上去。

diàn tī huài le,wǒ men zhǐ néng zǒu lóu tī shàng qù。

the elevator is broken, so we can only take the stairs up.

Words with 梯

梯子

tī zi

ladder

梯次

tī cì

echelon; tier; batch (in a sequence)

滑梯

huá tī

(children's) sliding board

自动扶梯

zì dòng fú tī

escalator

自动楼梯

zì dòng lóu tī

escalator

防火梯

fáng huǒ tī

fire escape

阶梯

jiē tī

flight of steps

阶梯教室

jiē tī jiào shì

lecture theater

阶梯计价

jiē tī jì jià

volumetric pricing

云梯

yún tī

(military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times

电扶梯

diàn fú tī

escalator

电梯

diàn tī

elevator

More characters with 木

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