梯
tī HSK4

ladder

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 弟 represents the sound.

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
弟
弟 Sound component
dì, di younger brother

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartthejl̥ˤ[ə]j stairs

說文解字

《說文》：“梯，木階也。从木，弟聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)