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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
- —黄鉄鉱iron pyrites; fool's gold; pyrite
- —可鍛鉄malleable iron
- —甲鉄艦armored ship; armoured ship
- —甲鉄板armor plate; armour plate
- —鉄工所ironworks
- —鉄鉱石iron ore
- —鉄染色iron staining
- —豆鉄砲peashooter
- —無鉄砲rash; reckless; headlong; foolhardy
- —鉄砲玉gunshot; bullet; lost messenger; truant messenger; non-returner; bull's-eye (candy)
- —鉄条網(barbed) wire entanglements
- —磁鉄鉱magnetite; lodestone
- —鉄道網railroad network; railroad system
- —肘鉄砲elbowing (someone); rejection; rebuff
- —酸化鉄iron oxide
- —くず鉄scrap iron
- —水鉄砲water pistol; squirt gun; water gun
- —紙鉄砲popgun; origami popgun
- —蹄鉄工farrier; horseshoer; blacksmith
- —鉄火丼vinegared rice topped with sliced raw tuna