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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
- —仙台市地下鉄Sendai Subway
- —銀河鉄道の夜Night on the Galactic Railroad (novel by Kenji Miyazawa); Milky Way Railroad
- —相鉄新横浜線Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line
- —磁気浮上式鉄道maglev train
- —遠州鉄道鉄道線Enshuu Railroad Tetsudou Line
- —相鉄いずみ野線Sōtetsu Izumino Line
- —鉄筋コンクリートreinforced concrete; ferroconcrete
- —地下鉄サリン事件sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (March 20, 1995)
- —紀州鉄道株式会社Kishu Railway
- —鉄道ピクトリアルTetsudo Pictorial
- —鉄道安全推進会議Railroad Safety Promotion Conference; TASK
- —日本鉄鋼輸出組合Japan Iron & Steel Exporters' Association
- —日本鉄道建設公団Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation
- —相模鉄道株式会社Sagami Railway Co., Ltd.
- —鉄は熱いうちに打てstrike while the iron is hot
- —鉄筋コンクリート造reinforced concrete construction
- —富山地方鉄道立山線Toyama Chihō Railway Tateyama Line
- —国鉄動力車労働組合National Railway Motive Power Union
- —箱根登山鉄道鋼索線Hakone Tōzan Cable Car
- —超電導磁気浮上式鉄道superconducting maglev train