Illustration: Inside the covered loading bay of a Japanese metal supplier, a worker checks stock beside racks of steel beams, bundled reinforcing bars, a broad rolled coil, and a low pallet of rough iron ingots. Their exposed ends reveal solid metal throughout.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

鉄てっ鋼こう

tekkou

iron and steel

Example sentences

  1. 鉄鋼てっこうは基幹産業きかんさんぎょうである。

    Steel is a key industry.

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  2. 鉄鋼てっこうの特性とくせいの１つは硬かたいことだ。

    One of the qualities of steel is hardness.

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  3. その年としの鉄鋼てっこう生産せいさんは史上最高しじょうさいこうだった。

    Steel production of the year was the highest on record.

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Kanji in 鉄鋼

  • 鉄ironOnテツKunくろがね
  • 鋼steelOnコウKunはがね

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