鉄 — iron

Grade 3 kanji · 13 strokes · on'yomi tetsu.

Metal (金) + lost (失) — the metal that was once lost underground.

Example words

• 鉄道 — tetsudou — railway
• 地下鉄 — chikatetsu — subway

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