电梯 (diàn tī)

Character breakdown

• 电 (diàn) · 5 strokes

  Simplified form of 電, which depicts lightning (申) during a rainstorm (雨). The 雨 component was deleted for simplification.

• 梯 (tī) · 11 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 弟 represents the sound.