HSK 3.0 · LEVEL 2
地铁
Subway / Underground railway
Free Chinese vocabulary flashcard · HSK 2
Why does 地铁 look like this?
'地' (soil 土 + sound 也): originally meaning 'earth' or 'ground'. '铁' (metal 金 + sound 失): meaning 'iron' or 'steel'. Together, they represent 'underground iron', which refers to a subway!