It's by smithing that one becomes a blacksmith.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
铁匠
blacksmith
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
blacksmith
02
ironworker
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 铁匠 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 铁匠 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The dwarves are great smiths.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 铁匠.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 铁匠.
Directly before
- 成铁匠1
- 的铁匠1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 铁匠
What does 铁匠 mean in Chinese?
铁匠 (tiějiang) means blacksmith.
How do you pronounce 铁匠?
铁匠 is pronounced tiějiang.
Is 铁匠 an HSK word?
铁匠 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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