HSK 5 · Objects

钢铁 gāngtiě “steel” in Chinese

Traditional 鋼鐵

What 钢铁 means

  1. steel

How to say 钢铁

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale钢gāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale铁tiě3rd tone, dipping

钢铁 in a sentence

  1. 钢铁是重点产业。

    Gāngtiě shì zhòngdiǎn chǎnyè.

    Steel is a key industry.

    Sentence #2715470 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 钢铁 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 钢 (gāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
钢gāngsteel
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 冈ridge or crest of hill · gāngSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 冈 (gāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with gāng.

The character 铁 (tiě) with each of its parts in a different colour
铁tiěiron
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 失to lose · shīSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 失 (shī) hints at the sound. Compare it with tiě.

How to write 钢铁

钢 9 strokes · 铁 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

钢铁 (gāngtiě) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 钢铁 (gāngtiě). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 钢铁

Words with 钢

弹钢琴tángāngqín · to play the piano

Words with 铁

地铁dìtiě · subway高铁gāotiě · high-speed rail斩钉截铁zhǎndīngjiétiě · resolute and decisive

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FAQs

钢铁 (gāngtiě) means “steel”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it gāngtiě: gāng with a 1st tone, then tiě with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 钢铁 is written 鋼鐵. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gangtie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 钢铁 from the suggestions. Typing gangtie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
钢铁 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.