Metro in Chinese
metro · HSK 2
地铁
- 地 earth
- 铁 iron
Counted with 条: 一条地铁
我每天坐地铁上班。 I take the subway to work every day.
More words with 地 or 铁
How do you say metro in Chinese?
Metro in Chinese is 地铁 (dì tiě).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.