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地铁

dì tiě

HSK 2 · word 619 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

我坐地铁上学。

wǒ zuò dì tiě shàng xué

I go to school by subway.

Characters in 地铁

地 ground plus 铁, iron — the underground iron road. The name is a clipping of 地下铁道, and 铁路 uses the same 铁 for a railway.

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