鐵 (tiě)

iron; strong; hard

How 鐵 is written

Strokes
21
Radical
金 — metal/gold
Traditional
鐵
Simplified
铁

Common words using 鐵

地鐵 dìtiě
subway; metro
地鐵站 dìtiězhàn
subway station; metro station; MRT station
鐵桿 tiěgān
iron (golf club)
鐵石心腸 tiěshíxīncháng
hard-hearted
鐵路 tiělù
railroad; railway; CL:條|条[tiao2]
鐵面 tiěmiàn
iron mask (as defensive armor); fig. upright and selfless person
高鐵 gāotiě
highspeed rail
打鐵 dǎtiě
to forge ironware
拿鐵 nátiě
latte (loanword)
磁鐵 cítiě
magnet
鋼鐵 gāngtiě
steel
鐵人 tiěrén
Ironman

鐵 in a sentence

從台北搭高鐵去高雄很方便。

Cóng Táiběi dā Gāotiě qù Gāoxióng hěn fāngbiàn.

“It is very convenient to take the High Speed Rail from Taipei to Kaohsiung.”

How common is 鐵?

鐵 is the 777th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 84.8% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 鐵

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