地鐵

See also: 地铁

Chinese

		earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly	iron
trad. (地鐵)		地	鐵
simp. (地铁)		地	铁

Etymology

Short for 地下鐵路／地下铁路 (dìxià tiělù).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìtiě

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ ㄊㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dei⁶ tit³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thi-thiet
• Eastern Min (BUC): dê-tiék
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tē-thih

  (Teochew, Peng'im): di⁷ tih⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶di-thiq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dìtiě
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄊㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dìtiě
    • Wade–Giles: ti⁴-tʻieh³
    • Yale: dì-tyě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihtiee
    • Palladius: дите (dite)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dei⁶ tit³
    • Yale: deih tit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dei⁶ tit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: déi⁶ tid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tei̯²² tʰiːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thi-thiet
    • Hakka Romanization System: ti tied^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ti⁴ tiad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi⁵⁵ tʰi̯et̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dê-tiék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti²⁴²⁻⁵³ ^(tʰ-)liɛʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē-thih
    • Tâi-lô: tē-thih
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dextiq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /te²²⁻²¹ tʰiʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /te⁴¹⁻²² tʰiʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /te²²⁻²¹ tʰiʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /te³³⁻¹¹ tʰiʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /te³³⁻²¹ tʰiʔ³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: di⁷ tih⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tī thih
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti¹¹ tʰiʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶di-thiq
    • MiniDict: di^去 thih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³di-thiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /di²² tʰiɪʔ⁴⁴/

Noun

地鐵

1. subway; metro; underground railway; the underground

   我每天坐地鐵去上班。 [MSC, trad.]
   我每天坐地铁去上班。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ měitiān zuò dìtiě qù shàngbān. [Pinyin]

   I take the subway to work every day.

   你可害死我了，讓我坐公交不坐地鐵。 [MSC, trad.]
   你可害死我了，让我坐公交不坐地铁。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ kě hàisǐ wǒ le, ràng wǒ zuò gōngjiāo bù zuò dìtiě. [Pinyin]

   You sent me to hell, telling me to take the bus instead of the subway.

   你想搭地鐵定搭巴士啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   你想搭地铁定搭巴士啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ soeng² daap³ dei⁶ tit³ ding⁶ daap³ baa¹ si^6-2 aa³? [Jyutping]

   Do you want to take the MTR or the bus?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 地鐵 (“subway; metro”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		地鐵, 地下鐵
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	地鐵
	Taiwan	捷運
	Singapore	地鐵, MRT
Cantonese	Guangzhou	地鐵
	Hong Kong	地鐵, 地下鐵
	Taishan	地鐵
	Singapore (Guangfu)	地鐵
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	地鐵
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	捷運
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	捷運
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	捷運
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	捷運
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	捷運
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	捷運
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	地鐵
	Singapore (Fuqing)	地鐵
Southern Min	Xiamen	地鐵
	Quanzhou	地鐵
	Zhangzhou	地鐵
	Tainan	捷運
	Singapore (Hokkien)	地鐵, MRT
	Singapore (Teochew)	地鐵
Wu	Shanghai	地鐵

Derived terms

• 地鐵站／地铁站 (dìtiězhàn)

 

See also

• 動車／动车 (dòngchē)
• 高鐵／高铁 (gāotiě)
• 火車／火车 (huǒchē)
• 列車／列车 (lièchē)
• 鐵路／铁路 (tiělù)