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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
- —鉄ちりboiled fugu dish (served with ponzu dipping sauce)
- —鉄の肺iron lung
- —海綿鉄sponge iron; direct reduced iron; DRI
- —鉄骨造steel construction
- —鉄酵母iron yeast; iron-enriched yeast
- —草蘇鉄ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)
- —鉄道駅railway station; train station
- —鋳鉄管cast-iron pipe
- —鉄砲魚archerfish (any fish of family Toxotidae, esp. the banded archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix)
- —鉄工廠ironworks
- —鉄甲船iron-reinforced warships built by Oda Nobunaga
- —鋼鉄製(made of) steel
- —鉄扇術martial art based on the use of the iron fan
- —鉄芽球sideroblast
- —鉄道橋railroad bridge
- —鉄無地slate gray unpatterned cloth
- —菱鉄鉱siderite
- —鉄細菌iron bacteria
- —硫化鉄iron sulfide; iron sulphide
- —苦鉄質mafic