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铁 — iron; arms; weapons

iron; arms; weapons; hard; strong; violent; unshakeable

Pinyin
tiě · Tiě
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — tiě, Tiě — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 铁: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

铁 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 铁

Words with 铁 in the HSK syllabus: 7

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 地铁dìtiěunderground railway; subway; subway trainHSK 2
  2. 高铁gāotiěhigh speed railHSK 3
  3. 铁路tiělùrailroad; railwayHSK 5
  4. 磁铁cítiěmagnetHSK 7–9
  5. 钢铁gāngtiěsteelHSK 7–9
  6. 铁tiěiron; arms; weapons; hard; strong; violentHSK 7–9
  7. 斩钉截铁zhǎndīng-jiétiěto chop the nail and slice the ironHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.