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Translingual

Han character

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

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.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tʰiːl
*tʰiːl, *diːls
*tʰiːlʔ, *tʰiːls
*tʰiːlʔ
*tʰiːls, *diːls
*tʰiːls
*diːl
*diːl
*diːl
*diːl
*diːl
*diːl
*diːl
*diːl
*diːlʔ, *diːls
*diːlʔ, *diːls
*diːlʔ, *diːls
*diːls

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2279
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰiːl/

Definitions

  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

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thê)

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