铁
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iron (metal); arms; weapons; hard; strong; violent; unshakeable; determined; close; tight (slang)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 金 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鐵
- Common rank
- #302
- Unicode
- U+94C1
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
iron · Heisig RSH #730
metal + 失 lose
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 铁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 铁山区 | Tieshan, a district of Huangshi City 黃石市|黄石市[Huang2 shi2 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 铁西区 | Tiexi, a district of Siping City 四平市[Si4 ping2 Shi4], Jilin; Tiexi, a district of Shenyang… | |
| 铁力市 | Tieli, a county-level city in Yichun City 伊春市[Yi1 chun1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 地下铁路 | subway | |
| 马口铁 | tinplate; tin (tin-coated steel) | |
| 白口铁 | white iron | |
| 点金成铁 | to transform gold into base metal (idiom); fig. to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin… | |
| 点铁成金 | to touch base matter and turn it to gold (idiom); fig. to turn crude writing into a litera… | |
| 铁东区 | Tiedong, a district of Siping City 四平市[Si4 ping2 Shi4], Jilin; Tiedong, a district of Ansh… | |
| 铁子 | (slang) very close friend; bro | |
| 铁人 | Ironman | |
| 铁格子 | iron lattice; metal grid | |
| 铁山 | see 鐵山區|铁山区[Tie3 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 铁水 | molten iron | |
| 头铁 | (slang) stubborn; headstrong | |
| 生铁 | pig iron | |
| 地铁 | underground railway; subway; subway train | |
| 铁马 | armored horse; cavalry; metal chimes hanging from eaves; steel barricade; (Tw) bike | |
| 白铁 | galvanized iron | |
| 铁力木 | ironwood (Mesua ferrea) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 失 — compare how they read.