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Mythic Mandarin

高铁 (gāo tiě): meaning and stroke order

高铁 (gāo tiě) means high speed rail.

高铁

Simplified
高铁
Traditional
高鐵
Pinyin
gāo tiě

Stroke order of 高铁

高

  • Gāo surname Gao
  • gāo high; tall
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

铁

  • Tiě surname Tie
  • tiě iron (metal); arms
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鐵

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 高铁

  1. gāo tiě Traditional 高鐵
    • high speed rail

Radicals of the characters

高
Radical 高 (Kangxi radical 189) · 10 strokes
铁
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 钅 on the left, 失 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

高铁 in our stories

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  • 放暑假了，赵乐一个人坐高铁去西安。

    fàng shǔjià le Zhào Lè yí gè rén zuò gāotiě qù Xī'ān

    The summer holidays have begun, and Zhao Le is taking the high-speed train to Xi'an on his own.

    From the story The train to Xi'an HSK 3

Stories using 高铁

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).