tiě

iron; strong, solid, firm

DEFINITIONS

鐵 tiě
  • surname Tie
  • iron (metal)
  • arms
  • weapons
  • hard
  • strong
  • violent
  • unshakeable
  • determined
  • close
  • tight (slang)

WORDS

三氯化 sān lǜ huà tiě ferric chloride FeCl3
三角 sān jiǎo tiě triangle (musical instrument); angle iron
sān tiě triathlon (Tw); (athletics) throwing events excluding the hammer throw (i.e. discus, javelin and shot put)
不鏽 bù xiù tiě stainless iron
yà tiě ferrous
京九路 jīng jiǔ tiě lù JingJiu (Beijing-Kowloon) railway
京哈路 jīng hā tiě lù Beijing-Harbin railway
京廣路 jīng guǎng tiě lù Jing-Guang (Beijing-Guangzhou) Railway
京滬高 jīng hù gāo tiě Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, completed in 2010; abbr. for 京滬高速鐵路|京沪高速铁路
人是飯是鋼 rén shì tiě fàn shì gāng one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom); an empty sack cannot stand upright
加拿大太平洋路 jiā ná dà tài píng yáng tiě lù Canadian Pacific Railway
只要功夫深,杵磨成針 zhǐ yào gōng fu shēn , tiě chǔ mó chéng zhēn If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.; cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task; to study diligently
石 xī tiě shí a magnet; same as 磁鐵|磁铁
地下路 dì xià tiě lù subway
dì tiě subway; metro
站 dì tiě zhàn subway station
埃菲爾塔 āi fēi ěr tiě tǎ Eiffel Tower
chéng tiě rapid transit system; urban railway
太平洋聯合路 tài píng yáng lián hé tiě lù Union Pacific Railroad
土 fù tiě tǔ Ferrosols (Chinese Soil Taxonomy)
寶成路 bǎo chéng tiě lù Baoji-Chengdu Railway
bā tiě Transit Elevated Bus (TEB); (coll.) Pakistani brethren; Pakistani comrades; abbr. for 巴基斯坦鐵哥們|巴基斯坦铁哥们[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3 tie3 ge1 men5]
廢銅爛 fèi tóng làn tiě scrap metal; a pile of junk
fèi tiě scrap iron
廣九路 guǎng jiǔ tiě lù Guangdong and Kowloon railway
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