Keyword
iron
Info
FrequencyTop 800-900
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
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Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 8
Heisig909
Old form
Readings
てつ
(64%)
てっ
(32%)
でっ
(1%)
Composed of
gold
permanent loss
Mnemonic

Gold which permanently lost its brilliance becomes iron.

Used in vocabulary (341 in total)
iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast
iron plate; steel plane; sure thing; certain winner
Examples (116 in total)
Is it made of iron?
Iron transmits heat well.
Iron is hard.
Gold is heavier than iron.
Iron is harder than gold.
Wood floats, but iron sinks.
Gold is more precious than iron.
Iron is much more useful than gold.
It's the fastest railroad in the world.
There were no railroads in Japan at that time.
There were no railroads at that time in Japan.
They are planning to connect the cities with a railroad.
The new railway is not completed yet.
The railroad system in Japan is said to be wonderful.
My dad works on the railways.
The railroad provoked a kind of revolution.
I prefer traveling by train to flying.
This metal is comparable to iron in strength.
It's dangerous to walk on railway lines.
This vase is made of iron.
Iron is the most useful metal.
Iron is a useful metal.
The red lines on the map represent a railway.
The red lines on the map represent railways.
I bought this book from the bookshop near the railway station.
Excuse me, but is this the right way to the subway station?
Excuse me, where's the subway station?
Do you know where you should get on the subway?
Where do I get the subway?
What subway goes to the center of town?
Which is quicker, a taxi or the subway?
Do you go by bus, by train, or by subway?
Is it dangerous to take a subway alone?
I want to get there by subway.
Whenever I get on the subway, I put my wallet in my front pocket.
I hate riding the subway.
Let's take the subway.
Can you tell me where the subway entrance is?
Could I please have a subway map?
The subway is faster than the streetcar.
I take the subway almost every day.
Subways run under the ground.
The subway is cheap, fast, and very convenient.
Could you tell me how to get to the subway station?
I expect a subway station will be here in the future.
His house is near the subway station.
He often uses a subway.
They went by subway.
She got on the subway at Ginza.
The new subway enables me to get to school in 20 minutes.
I wish the subway wasn't so crowded every morning.
I go to school by subway.
I get on the subway every morning at Ginza.
Concrete can be reinforced by putting steel bars inside it.
Tom said goodbye and got on the subway.
Tom said goodbye and then got on the subway.
In the future, I think there'll be a subway station here.
There were almost no railroads out west.
She transferred from the bus to the subway.
This bridge is made of iron.
Is this made out of wood or metal?
Iron and oxygen are elements.
They are planning to extend the railroad to the next town.
The Moscow subway runs until one a.m.
That person's house is near the subway.
Where's the nearest subway station?
Can you direct me to the nearest subway station?
A magnet attracts iron.
Switzerland is the land of the railway.
In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.
Do you have any spare iron ingots?
Nowadays there are railways all over England.
Can you give me directions to the subway station?
The building will be made of concrete on a steel framework.
An iron bridge was built across the river.
I walked along the river until I got to the iron bridge.
The police compared the fingerprints on the gun with those on the door.
He works on the railroad as a driver.
A railroad was constructed in this town.
Steel production is estimated to reach 100 million tons this year.
Steel production will increase 2% this month from last month.
According to an estimate, steel production will reach 100 million tons this year.
Steel production reached an estimated 100 million tons last year.
Steel production is estimated to have reached 100 million tons last year.
One of the qualities of steel is hardness.
Steel output set a record for two consecutive years.
Subway fares will be raised by nearly ten percent as of April 1, 2001.
A new means of communication was developed — the railway.
Subway fares will be raised as of April 1st, 1999.
It has been announced that railway fares will be raised by 10 percent starting on the first of March.
There is a metro in Kazan.
The train service was suspended by the earthquake.
Because of the heavy snow, the railroad traffic has been interrupted.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
Galileo dropped two iron balls from the top of the tower.
Do you have a subway map?
Could I have a subway map, please?
Green peas are high in iron and contain nutrients that improve the colour of fingernails.
Where is the nearest subway station?
A network of railroads soon spread over the entire country.
The Golden Gate Bridge is made of iron.
The Siberian Railway is at once the longest and best known railway in the world.
Have you ever eaten teppanyaki?
Steel production of the year was the highest on record.
Please look up the first train to London in the railway guide.
He was beaten with an iron rod during a violent soccer match.
How did the railway accident at Tokyo Station happen?
The railroad is parallel to the road.
Steel is a key industry.
That town is the center of the steel industry.
The atomic number of iron is 26.
The magnetite is attracted to the earth's magnetic field.
Though he long dominated the steel industry, he never achieved a complete monopoly.
Iron Arm Atom protected the country from danger.
My mother was a Japanese National Railways station attendant from 1971 until 1987.
Hanako's favorite anime is "Night on the Galactic Railroad".