The kanji 鉄: meaning, readings and stroke order

鉄

Meaning: iron
On reading: テツ tetsu
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 13
Radical: 金 metal, gold
Level: Level 3 · grade 3
Old form: 鐵

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: sắt (thiết)
Japanese: てつ。かたいきんぞく。
Korean: 쇠, 철 (철)
Chinese: 铁

Readings, words and example sentences

テツ tetsu · on reading

鉄てつ道どう
railway
鉄てつ道どうで島の近くまで行きます。
I take the train to a place near the island.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.