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Mythic Mandarin

梯子 (tī zi): meaning and stroke order

梯子 (tī zi) means ladder, stepladder.

梯子

Simplified
梯子
Traditional
梯子 (same form)
Pinyin
tī zi

Stroke order of 梯子

梯

  • tī (bound form) ladder; stairs
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 梯子

  1. tī zi
    • ladder
    • stepladder

Radicals of the characters

梯
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 11 strokes · 木 on the left, 弟 on the right
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

梯子 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 他们的想法是做一个手机软件，让邻居之间可以互相借东西：电钻、梯子、帐篷……

    tāmen de xiǎngfǎ shì zuò yí gè shǒujī ruǎnjiàn ràng línjū zhījiān kěyǐ hùxiāng jiè dōngxi diànzuàn tīzi zhàngpeng

    Their idea was a phone app that let neighbours lend each other things: drills, ladders, tents…

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

Stories using 梯子

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).