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铁路

tiě lù

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 鐵路 Measure word 条

铁路 (tiě lù) means "railroad; railway". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 铁路 means

1. railroad
2. railway

The characters in 铁路

• 铁tiěiron (metal); arms; weapons
• 路lùroad; journey; route

Example sentences

• 铁路与公路平行。
  Tiělù yǔ gōnglù píngxíng.
  The tracks run parallel to the road.
• 我爸爸在铁路工作。
  My dad works on the railways.
• 铁路连通了两个城市。
  A railroad has connected the two cities.
• 地图上的红线代表铁路。
  Dìtú shàng de hóngxiàn dàibiǎo tiělù.
  The red lines on the map represent a railway.
• 铁路工人明天将继续进行罢工。
  The railroad workers are going on walkout tomorrow.
• 英国必须改善它在铁路网的问题。
  The UK must improve the problems with its rail network.

Words starting with 铁路

• 铁路线tiě lù xiànrailway line

Words containing 铁路

• 京广铁路Jīng Guǎng Tiě lùJing-Guang (Beijing-Guangzhou) Railway
• 地下铁路dì xià tiě lùsubway
• 宝成铁路Bǎo Chéng tiě lùBaoji-Chengdu Railway
• 兰新铁路Lán xīn tiě lùLanzhou-Xinjiang railway
• 青藏铁路Qīng Zàng tiě lùQinghai-Tibet railway
• 青藏铁路线Qīng Zàng Tiě lù xiànQinghai-Tibet Railway
• 粤汉铁路Yuè Hàn Tiě lùCanton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the…
• 沪宁铁路Hù Níng Tiě lùShanghai-Nanjing Railway, a.k.a. Huning Railway
• 陇海铁路Lǒng Hǎi tiě lùJiangsu-Gansu railway
• 京九铁路Jīng Jiǔ Tiě lùJingJiu (Beijing-Kowloon) railway
• 广九铁路Guǎng Jiǔ tiě lùGuangdong and Kowloon railway
• 太平洋联合铁路Tài píng Yáng Lián hé Tiě lùUnion Pacific Railroad
• 加拿大太平洋铁路Jiā ná dà Tài píng yáng Tiě lùCanadian Pacific Railway

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