铁路

Character by character

• 铁tiě10 strokesHSK 2 traditional 鐵iron; strong, solid, firm
• 路lù13 strokesHSK 1road, path, street; journey

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 铁路与公路平行。

  Tiě lù yǔ gōng lù píng xíng

  The railroad is parallel to the road.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 铁路. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 路lùHSK 1

  road; journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind

• 路上lù shangHSK 1

  on the road; on a journey; road surface

• 铁tiěHSK 3

  iron (metal); arms; weapons; hard; strong; violent; unshakeable; determined; close; tight (slang)

• 道路dào lùHSK 2

  road; path; way

• 公路gōng lùHSK 2

  highway; road

• 一路yī lùHSK 5

  the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind

• 路线lù xiànHSK 3

  itinerary; route; political line (e.g. right revisionist road)

• 地铁dì tiěHSK 2

  underground railway; subway; subway train

• 线路xiàn lùHSK 6

  (electricity) line; circuit; wire; (traffic) road; track; route

• 路过lù guòHSK 6

  to pass by or through

• 走路zǒu lùHSK 1

  to walk; to go on foot

• 马路mǎ lùHSK 1

  street; road

• 高速公路gāo sù gōng lùHSK 3

  expressway; highway; freeway

• 思路sī lùHSK 7

  line of thought; way of thinking

• 路边lù biānHSK 2

  curb; roadside; wayside

• 路口lù kǒuHSK 1

  crossing; intersection (of roads)

• 钢铁gāng tiě

  steel

• 出路chū lùHSK 6

  a way out (lit. and fig.); opportunity for advancement; a way forward; outlet (for one's products)

• 迷路mí lùHSK 7

  to lose the way; lost; labyrinth; labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear)

• 路程lù chéngHSK 7

  route; path traveled; distance traveled; course (of development)

• 一路上yī lù shàngHSK 6

  along the way; the whole way; (fig.) the whole time

• 路人lù rénHSK 7

  passer-by; stranger

• 地铁站dì tiě zhànHSK 2

  subway station

• 路面lù miànHSK 7

  road surface