Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 銑鉄 【センテツ】 pig iron
  • 製銑 【セイセン】 pig iron making, pig iron manufacturing
  • 溶銑 【ヨウセン】 molten iron

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian3, xi3
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • hierro para fundir
  • mineral

Portuguese

  • Ferro-gusa

French

  • gueuse
  • fonte
1496 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2028 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4850 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1588 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2158 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1905 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2140 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1943 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1820 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2160 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1137 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1538 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
276 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40376 Morohashi
1726 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6263 New Nelson (John Haig)
270 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
288 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1737 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2857 2001 Kanji
8a6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-6 SKIP code
8411.1 Four corner code
1-33-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9291 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:
iron
Kun:
くろがね
On:
テツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
672 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鉄 【テツ】 iron (Fe), steel, iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.), railway, railway enthusiast
  • 鉄製 【テッセイ】 made of iron
  • 国鉄 【コクテツ】 national railway, Japan National Railways (1949-1987)
  • 新日本製鐵 【シンニッポンセイテツ】 Nippon Steel Corporation

Kun reading compounds

  • 黒金 【くろがね】 iron

Readings

Japanese names:
けん、 てっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tie3
Korean:
cheol

Spanish

  • hierro
  • acero

Portuguese

  • ferro

French

  • fer
283 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
374 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
353 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
327 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4844 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
242 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
976 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1948 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
312 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
312 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
147 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1814 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2147 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1126 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1527 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
854 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40285 Morohashi
1711 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6253 New Nelson (John Haig)
846 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
909 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
449 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
422 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2863 2001 Kanji
8a5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8513.0 Four corner code
1-37-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9244 Unicode hex code