地铁 dìtiě▶ metro

Stroke order

地铁 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 地 — 6 strokes
• 铁 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. underground railway; subway
2. subway train

Example sentences

• 我坐地铁去公司。Wǒ zuò dìtiě qù gōngsī.I take the subway to the company.
• 地铁很快。Dìtiě hěn kuài.The subway is fast.

Related words

• 地图Mapa
• 地方local
• 地
• 地址dirección
• 地点ubicación
• 地球tierra

地铁 is pronounced dìtiě and means “metro”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 地铁 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.