Stairs in Chinese
stairs · HSK 3
楼梯
- 楼 building
- 梯 ladder
Counted with 段: 一段楼梯
电梯坏了，我们只能走楼梯。 The elevator is broken, so we have to take the stairs.
More words with 楼 or 梯
How do you say stairs in Chinese?
Stairs in Chinese is 楼梯 (lóu tī).
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.