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鉄

JLPT N2 SL3 13 strokes Frequency: #672

Meanings

Iron

Radicals

釒

Decomposition

⿰釒失

Etymology

Pictophonetic: metal

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 dot right-to-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical right-to-left

6 dot bottom-to-top

7 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 rising bottom-to-top

9 diagonal right-to-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

12 diagonal top-to-bottom

13 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

テツ tetsu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

くろがね kurogane

Words Using This Kanji

336 words total

Other (20 words)

ヘキサシアノ鉄酸カリウムヘキサシアノてつさんカリウム

potassium ferrocyanide

高速鉄道こうそくてつどう

high-speed rail

海綿鉄かいめんてつ

sponge iron

鉄骨鉄筋コンクリート造てっこつてっきんコンクリートぞう

steel-framed reinforced concrete construction

鉄骨鉄筋コンクリート造てっこつてっきんコンクリートぞう

steel-framed reinforced concrete construction

鉄筋コンクリート造てっきんコンクリートぞう

reinforced concrete construction

steel construction

Iron Cross

iron yeast

carpenter's square

fugu sashimi

railway station

鉄は熱いうちに鍛えよてつはあついうちにきたえよ

strike while the iron is hot

iron armor (armour)

ferrite

iron sword

Japanese National Railways (1949-1987)

鋳鉄管ちゅうてつかん

cast-iron pipe

鉄砲魚てっぽううお

archerfish (any fish of family Toxotidae, esp. the banded archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix)

黄鉄鉱おうてっこう

iron pyrites

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