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地铁

dì tiě

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Traditional 地鐵

地铁 (dì tiě) means "underground railway; subway". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 地铁 means

1. underground railway; subway
2. subway train

The characters in 地铁

• 地dìearth; ground; field
• 铁tiěiron (metal); arms; weapons

Example sentences

• 喀山有地铁。
  Kāshān yǒu dìtiě.
  There is a metro in Kazan.
• 地铁站有点儿远
  Dìtiězhàn yǒudiǎnr yuǎn
  The metro station is quite far.
• 我想乘地铁去。
  I want to get there by subway.
• 我坐地铁上学。
  I go to school by subway.
• 我搭地铁上学。
  I go to school by subway.
• 在这里搭地铁。
  Get on the underground here.

Words starting with 地铁

• 地铁站dì tiě zhànsubway station

Where 地铁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Places in the City (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dì tiě correctly.
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