VocabularyHSK 3 · core

地铁

dìtiě

subway

Part of speech · noun

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地ground

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Examples

我每天坐地铁上班。
I take the subway to work every day.
地铁站在哪里?
Where is the subway station?

Collocations

坐地铁地铁站地铁线

Mnemonic

地铁 dìtiě "subway" — 地 (ground) + 铁 (iron/rail). Direct compound. Compare Korean "jihacheol" (地下鐵) and Japanese 地下鉄 (chikatetsu) — Chinese drops the 下 "below".

Quick check

How to say "subway line 1"?