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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
- —鉄鋼製品steel manufactures; steel products; articles of iron or steel
- —鉄ちゃんtrainspotter; railway enthusiast; railfan
- —水酸化鉄iron hydroxide; ferrous hydroxide; ferric hydroxide
- —鉄過剰症iron overload; hyperferremia
- —泰緬鉄道Thai-Burma Railway
- —磁硫鉄鉱pyrrhotite
- —灰鉄輝石hedenbergite
- —硫化鉄鉱pyrites
- —架空鉄道elevated railway; overhead railway
- —親鉄元素siderophile element
- —鉄道電話railway telephone
- —鉄道警察railway police; railroad police
- —鉄骨構造steel-frame construction; steel structure
- —環状鉄心toroidal core; endless core
- —磨穿鉄硯showing unyielding diligence in one's studies; wearing a hole through one's metal inkstone from constant studying
- —軽量鉄骨light gauge steel
- —単軌鉄道monorail
- —鉄砲責めform of torture in which molten lead is poured over the victim's back
- —鉄板ネタno-fail joke; joke that gets people every time
- —闇に鉄砲doing something without having decided what one's goal for it is; a rifle in the dark