铁 — Chinese character
铁
tiě
iron; strong, solid, firm
- Pinyin
- tiě
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 钅 失
- Formation
- pictophonetic — metal; meaning component 钅; sound component 失
- Traditional
- 鐵
Common words with 铁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 铁路 (鐵路) | tiě lù | railroad; railway |
| 地铁 (地鐵) | dì tiě | underground railway; subway; subway train |
| 钢铁 (鋼鐵) | gāng tiě | steel |
| 高铁 (高鐵) | gāo tiě | high speed rail |
| 地铁站 (地鐵站) | dì tiě zhàn | subway station |
| 铁道 (鐵道) | tiě dào | railway line; rail track |
| 手无寸铁 (手無寸鐵) | shǒu wú cùn tiě | lit. not an inch of steel (idiom); unarmed and defenseless |
| 铁轨 (鐵軌) | tiě guǐ | rail; railroad track |
| 铁路线 (鐵路線) | tiě lù xiàn | railway line |
| 铁矿 (鐵礦) | tiě kuàng | iron ore; iron ore mine |
| 磁铁 (磁鐵) | cí tiě | magnet |
| 铁丝网 (鐵絲網) | tiě sī wǎng | wire netting; measure word: 道 (dào) |
English words written with 铁
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.