Chinese symbol for “steel”
钢铁
gāng tiě
Traditional: 鋼鐵
steel
The closest CC-CEDICT match for steel is 钢铁 (gāng tiě), defined as: steel.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “steel”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钢 (鋼) | gāng | steel |
| 钢材 (鋼材) | gāng cái | steel (as raw material); steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc |
| 白钢 (白鋼) | bái gāng | steel |
| 钢制 (鋼製) | gāng zhì | made of steel; steel (bar, screw, product etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 钢铁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钢琴 (鋼琴) | gāng qín | piano; measure word: 架 (jià), 台 (tái) |
| 钢材 (鋼材) | gāng cái | steel (as raw material); steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc |
| 钢筋 (鋼筋) | gāng jīn | steel reinforcing bar |
| 不锈钢 (不銹鋼) | bù xiù gāng | stainless steel |
| 铁路 (鐵路) | tiě lù | railroad; railway |
| 地铁 (地鐵) | dì tiě | underground railway; subway; subway train |
| 高铁 (高鐵) | gāo tiě | high speed rail |
| 地铁站 (地鐵站) | dì tiě zhàn | subway station |
See also: Japanese symbol for “steel”.
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.