Chinese symbol for “stair”
楼梯
lóu tī
Traditional: 樓梯
stair; staircase; 个 (gè)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for stair is 楼梯 (lóu tī), defined as: stair; staircase; 个 (gè).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “stair”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 楼梯.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大楼 (大樓) | dà lóu | building (a relatively large, multistory one); measure word: 幢 (zhuàng), 座 (zuò) |
| 楼下 (樓下) | lóu xià | downstairs |
| 楼上 (樓上) | lóu shàng | upstairs; (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread |
| 高楼 (高樓) | gāo lóu | high building; multistory building |
| 办公楼 (辦公樓) | bàn gōng lóu | office building; measure word: 座 (zuò), 栋 (dòng) |
| 电梯 (電梯) | diàn tī | elevator; escalator |
| 阶梯 (階梯) | jiē tī | flight of steps; (fig.) stepping stone; way to reach the goal of |
| 梯子 | tī zi | ladder; stepladder; (Internet slang) VPN or other tool used to circumvent internet censorship |
See also: Japanese symbol for “stair”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.