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Stroke order
地铁 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.
- 地 — 6 strokes
- 铁 — 10 strokes
Senses
- underground railway; subway
- 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
地铁 is pronounced dìtiě and means “tàu điện ngầm”. 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.