鉄
鉄 — cheol
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 쇠 철
- Romanization
- cheol
- English
- iron; strong, solid, firm
- Mandarin
- zhí
- Japanese on'yomi
- テツ, チツ, テチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- くろがね
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #672 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 13
- Variant forms
- 銕 鐵
- Radical
- 金 (167, 5 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 失
- Unicode
- U+9244
Parts that make up 鉄
How 鉄 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 鉄 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 金, 失.
Japanese words with 鉄
- 鉄道てつどう railroad; railway; rail transport
- 鉄てつ iron (Fe); steel; iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.)
- 鉄鋼てっこう iron and steel
- 地下鉄ちかてつ subway; metro; underground (railway)
- 国鉄こくてつ national railway; Japan National Railways (1949-1987)
- 電鉄でんてつ electric railway
- 私鉄してつ private railway
- 鉄骨てっこつ steel frame; steel beam; steel girder
- 鉄筋てっきん rebar; (iron) reinforcing bar; reinforcing steel
- 製鉄所せいてつじょ ironworks; steelworks
- 製鉄せいてつ iron manufacture
- 鉄製てっせい made of iron
Characters sharing the phonetic 失
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “철”
Other hanja with radical 金
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