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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
- —鉄琴metallophone; carillon; glockenspiel
- —鉄路railroad; railway
- —鉄器ironware
- —鉄壁iron wall; impregnable fortress; impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable; cast-iron
- —鉄鎖iron chain
- —軟鉄soft iron
- —鉄扉iron door
- —鉄鉢mendicant priest's begging bowl; iron helmet
- —鉄粉iron powder
- —鉄菱caltrop
- —撃鉄percussion hammer; firing hammer; cocking piece
- —隕鉄meteoric iron
- —鉄尺carpenter's square
- —鉄刺fugu sashimi
- —鉄甲iron armor (armour); iron helmet
- —地鉄ferrite
- —鉄剣iron sword
- —鉄鏃iron arrow-head (from the Yayoi and Kofun periods)
- —鉄魚comet goldfish
- —鉄船steel ship; ironclad