梯

梯 U+68AF, 梯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68AF ← 梮 [U+68AE] CJK Unified Ideographs 械 → [U+68B0]

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 (first edition): volume 2, page 1220, character 2
• Unihan data for U+68AF

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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

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): tī (ti¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧ

  (Chengdu, SP): ti¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tai¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thôi
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): thui / the

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tui¹

• Wu (Wiktionary): thi (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tī
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻi1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ti
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ti
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: ti¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ti
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tai¹
    • Yale: tāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thôi
    • Hakka Romanization System: toi´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: toi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰoi̯²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thui / the
    • Tâi-lô: thui / the
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tuy, tef
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰui⁴⁴/, /tʰe⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰui³³/, /tʰe³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰui⁴⁴/, /tʰe⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰui⁴⁴/, /tʰe⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰui⁴⁴/, /tʰe⁴⁴/

Note:

• thui - vernacular;
• the - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: tui¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thui
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰui³³/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: thi (T1)
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰei/

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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤ[ə]j/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰiːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	梯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tī
Middle Chinese	‹ thej ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁ[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 (Classifier: 條／条 c; 堂 c)

   擔堂梯 / 担堂梯 [Cantonese]  ―  daam¹ tong⁴ tai¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to carry a ladder

2. ladder-shaped object
3. to climb
4. to lean against

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 梯子 (“ladder”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		梯子
Mandarin	Beijing	梯子
	Taiwan	梯子
	Harbin	梯子
	Muping	梯子
	Jinan	梯子
	Luoyang	梯子
	Wanrong	梯子
	Xi'an	梯子
	Yinchuan	梯子
	Lanzhou	梯架
	Xining	梯子
	Ürümqi	梯架
	Wuhan	梯子, 樓梯
	Chengdu	梯子
	Guiyang	樓梯
	Liuzhou	梯子
	Xuzhou	梯子
	Yangzhou	梯子
	Nanjing	梯子
	Hefei	梯子
	Nantong	扶梯
Cantonese	Guangzhou	梯
	Hong Kong	梯
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	梯
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	梯
	Macau	梯
	Panyu	梯橫
	Huadu (Huashan)	梯
	Conghua	梯
	Zengcheng	梯
	Foshan	梯橫
	Nanhai (Shatou)	梯
	Shunde	梯
	Sanshui	梯
	Gaoming (Mingcheng)	梯
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	梯橫
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	梯
	Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)	梯
	Doumen	梯
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	梯
	Xinhui	梯
	Taishan	憑企
	Kaiping (Chikan)	憑企
	Enping (Niujiang)	憑企
	Heshan (Yayao)	梯
	Dongguan	梯
	Bao'an (Shajing)	梯
	Yangjiang	梯
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	梯
Gan	Nanchang	樓梯
	Lichuan	樓批
	Pingxiang	樓梯
Hakka	Meixian	梯
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	梯
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	梯
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	梯
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	梯
	Conghua (Lütian)	梯
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	梯仔
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	梯仔
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	梯仔
	Dongshi (Dabu)	梯
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	梯仔, 梯
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	梯
	Hong Kong	陡梯
	Senai (Huiyang)	梯
Huizhou	Jixi	梯
Jin	Taiyuan	梯子
	Xinzhou	梯子
Min Bei	Jian'ou	樓階
Min Dong	Fuzhou	梯, 樓梯
Min Nan	Xiamen	梯, 樓梯
	Manila (Hokkien)	樓梯, 梯
	Chaozhou	梯
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	梯
	Haikou	梯
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	樓梯
Wu	Shanghai	胡梯
	Chongming	梯
	Suzhou	梯
	Wuxi	梯子, 竹梯
	Danyang	梯, 梯子
	Hangzhou	梯子
	Ningbo	路梯
	Wenzhou	樓梯
	Jinhua	梯兒
Xiang	Changsha	樓梯, 梯子
	Shuangfeng	樓梯

Compounds

• 人梯
• 去梯言
• 回旋梯
• 天梯 (tiāntī)
• 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 (tī'ēntī)
• 梯桄
• 梯橋／梯桥
• 梯次 (tīcì)
• 梯氣／梯气
• 梯河
• 梯田 (tītián)
• 梯級／梯级 (tījí)
• 梯航
• 梯衝／梯冲
• 梯隊／梯队 (tīduì)
• 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 (hútī)
• 航海梯山
• 舷梯 (xiántī)
• 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 (diànfútī)
• 電梯／电梯 (diàntī)
• 飛梯／飞梯
• 魚梯／鱼梯

References

• “梯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

梯

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: たい (tai)
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kun: はしご (hashigo, 梯)

Compounds

Compounds

• 雲梯(うんてい) (untei)
• 階梯(かいてい) (kaitei)
• 魚梯(ぎょてい) (gyotei)
• 雲(くも)の梯(かけはし) (kumo no kakehashi)
• 舷梯(げんてい) (gentei)
• 古言梯(こげんてい) (kogentei)
• 索梯(さくてい) (sakutei)
• 桟梯(さんてい) (santei)
• 梯形(ていけい) (teikei)
• 梯梧(でいご) (deigo), 梯姑(でいご) (deigo): Indian coral tree
• 梯尺(ていしゃく) (teishaku)
• 梯状(ていじょう) (teijō)
• 梯陣(ていじん) (teijin)
• 梯隊(ていたい) (teitai)
• 梯団(ていだん) (teidan)
• 梯子(はしご) (hashigo), 梯子(ていし) (teishi): ladder
• 梯立(はした)て (hashitate)
• 梯(はし)の子(こ) (hashi no ko)
• 磐梯山(ばんだいさん) (Bandaisan)

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Korean

Hanja

梯 • (je) (hangeul 제)

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Vietnamese

Han character

梯: Hán Nôm readings: thê

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