HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Places

高铁 gāotiě “high-speed rail” in Chinese

Traditional 高鐵

What 高铁 means

  1. high-speed rail
  2. bullet train
  3. high speed rail

How to say 高铁

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale高gāo1st 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

高铁 in a sentence

  1. 我们坐高铁去上海吧。

    Wǒmen zuò gāotiě qù Shànghǎi ba.

    Let’s take the high-speed train to Shanghai.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 坐高铁比坐飞机方便。

    Zuò gāotiě bǐ zuò fēijī fāngbiàn.

    Taking the high-speed train is more convenient than flying.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 高铁 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 高 (gāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
高gāohigh
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 冋desert · jiōng

Memory aidDrawn from a tall tower: high, tall.

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 高铁

高 10 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.

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

Words related to 高铁

Words with 高

高兴gāoxìng · happy高gāo · tall高中gāozhōng · senior high school提高tígāo · to raise身高shēngāo · (a person’s) height高速公路gāosùgōnglù · motorway高级gāojí · high level高档gāodàng · superior quality崇高chónggāo · lofty高超gāochāo · superb

Words with 铁

地铁dìtiě · subway钢铁gāngtiě · steel斩钉截铁zhǎndīngjiétiě · resolute and decisive

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外地wàidì · another part of the country晚点wǎndiǎn · (of trains动物园dòngwùyuán · zoo东南dōngnán · southeast红绿灯hónglǜdēng · traffic lights检票jiǎnpiào · to check tickets区qū · district城chéng · city

FAQs

高铁 (gāotiě) means “high-speed rail” or “bullet train”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it gāotiě: gāo 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, 高铁 is written 高鐵. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gaotie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 高铁 from the suggestions. Typing gaotie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
高铁 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.