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鉄 kanji
iron
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
テツ
Kun readings
くろがね
Variant forms
銕鋨鐡鐵Words with 鉄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鉄の女Iron Lady (orig. nickname for Margaret Thatcher)
- —鉄砲隊corps of musketeers; matchlock troops; firearms squad
- —鉄砲組musketeer corps; arquebusier unit; unit of foot soldiers armed with firearms
- —狭軌鉄道narrow-gauge railway
- —索条鉄道cable railway
- —鉄器時代Iron Age
- —鉄骨工事steel-frame construction work
- —鉄板焼きteppanyaki; dishes prepared on a hot steel plate (usu. placed in the middle of the table)
- —有刺鉄線barbed wire
- —金城鉄壁impregnable castle (walls); impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
- —国有鉄道national railway
- —鉄火味噌miso, fried soybeans and vegetables seasoned with sake and sugar
- —鉄拳制裁(punishment by) striking with fists
- —鉄道馬車horse-drawn streetcar
- —森林鉄道forest railroad
- —軽便鉄道narrow-gauge railway; light railway
- —亜鉛鉄板galvanized sheet iron; galvanised sheet iron; galvanized sheet metal
- —鋼索鉄道cable railway; funicular railway
- —鉄道会社railroad corporation; railway company
- —鉄道事故railroad accident