梯 — ladder; stairs
- Pinyin
- tī
- Strokes
- 11
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Handwriting
- recognition only
How to write 梯: 11 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.
Words with 梯 in the HSK syllabus: 5
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 电梯diàntīelevator; escalatorHSK 3
- 楼梯lóutīstair; staircaseHSK 3
- 滑梯huátīsliding board; a slideHSK 7–9
- 阶梯jiētīflight of stepsHSK 7–9
- 梯子tīziladder; stepladderHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.