地铁(dì tiě): underground railway
underground railway
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
Watch how each character of 地铁 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.
Word information
- Pinyin
- dì tiě
- Meaning
- underground railway; subway
- HSK level
- HSK 2
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- 地鐵
Appears in lessons
地铁 is taught in these textbook lessons.
Example sentences
How 地铁 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
我搭地铁上学。
wǒ dā dì tiě shàng xué
I go to school by subway.
我想乘地铁去。
wǒ xiǎng chéng dì tiě qù
I want to get there by subway.
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 地铁 — tap one to open its word page.
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