Chinese symbol for “metro”
轨道交通
guǐ dào jiāo tōng
Traditional: 軌道交通
metro; rapid transit; subway
The closest CC-CEDICT match for metro is 轨道交通 (guǐ dào jiāo tōng), defined as: metro; rapid transit; subway.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “metro”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 地下铁 (地下鐵) | dì xià tiě | subway; metro; underground |
| 轻型轨道交通 (輕型軌道交通) | qīng xíng guǐ dào jiāo tōng | light rail; transit system (underground, at street level or elevated) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 轨道交通.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 轨道 (軌道) | guǐ dào | track (for trains etc); orbit (of a satellite) |
| 轨迹 (軌跡) | guǐ jì | locus; orbit |
| 出轨 (出軌) | chū guǐ | to be derailed; to go off the rails; (fig.) to overstep the bounds |
| 接轨 (接軌) | jiē guǐ | railtrack connection; to integrate into sth |
| 铁轨 (鐵軌) | tiě guǐ | rail; railroad track |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5] |
| 报道 (報道) | bào dào | to report (news); report |
| 难道 (難道) | nán dào | don't tell me ...; could it be that...? |
| 交易 | jiāo yì | to deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; deal |
| 通过 (通過) | tōng guò | to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “metro”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.