Chinese symbol for “staircase”
楼梯间
lóu tī jiān
Traditional: 樓梯間
staircase; flight of stairs
The closest CC-CEDICT match for staircase is 楼梯间 (lóu tī jiān), defined as: staircase; flight of stairs.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “staircase”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 楼梯间.
| 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 |
| 楼梯 (樓梯) | lóu tī | stair; staircase |
| 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 |
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
See also: Japanese symbol for “staircase”.
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.