tī
ladder
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 弟 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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。” |
Sources
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