地铁
dì tiě 4–3
underground railway; subway; subway train
- Characters
- 2
- 地 · 铁
- Syllables
- 2
- dì tiě
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 3,046
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 地de6 strokesHSK 1earth; soil, ground; region
- 铁tiě10 strokesHSK 2 traditional 鐵iron; strong, solid, firm
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
地铁站有点儿远
Dì tiě zhàn yǒu diǎn r yuǎn
The metro station is quite far.
地铁在地下通行。
Dì tiě zài dì xià tōng xíng
Subways run under the ground.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 地铁. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 地deHSK 1
-ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 地方dì fangHSK 1
area; place; space; room; territory
- 地址dì zhǐHSK 4
address
- 地区dì qūHSK 3
local; regional; district (not necessarily formal administrative unit); region; area; as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city)
- 土地tǔ dìHSK 4
land; soil; territory
- 当地dāng dìHSK 3
local
- 基地jī dìHSK 5
base (of operations); industrial or military base; al-Qaeda
- 地点dì diǎnHSK 1
place; site; location; venue
- 地球dì qiúHSK 2
the earth
- 地上dì shangHSK 1
on the ground; on the floor
- 铁tiěHSK 3
iron (metal); arms; weapons; hard; strong; violent; unshakeable; determined; close; tight (slang)
- 地位dì wèiHSK 4
position; status; place
- 地下dì xiàHSK 4
underground; subterranean; covert
- 各地gè dìHSK 3
in all parts of (a country); various regions
- 地面dì miànHSK 4
floor; ground; surface
- 房地产fáng dì chǎnHSK 7
real estate
- 本地běn dìHSK 6
local; this locality
- 地图dì túHSK 1
map
- 地板dì bǎnHSK 6
floor
- 地震dì zhènHSK 5
earthquake
- 铁路tiě lùHSK 3
railroad; railway
- 地狱dì yùHSK 7
hell; infernal; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka
- 场地chǎng dìHSK 6
space; site; place; sports pitch
- 地道dì daoHSK 7
authentic; genuine; proper