Lift in Chinese
lift · HSK 3
电梯
- 电 electricity
- 梯 ladder
Counted with 部: 一部电梯
电梯坏了，我们走楼梯吧。 The elevator is broken, let's take the stairs.
Other ways to say lift
More words with 电 or 梯
How do you say lift in Chinese?
Lift in Chinese is 电梯 (diàn tī). You can also say 举 (jǔ), 抬 (tái), 提 (tí), 提起 (tí qǐ).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.