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

Short for 地下鐵路／地下铁路 (dìxià tiělù)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dìtiě
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄊㄧㄝˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihtiie
  - IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: dei⁶ tit³
  - Yale: deih tit
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dei⁶ tit⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: déi⁶ tid³
  - IPA ^(key): /tei̯²² tʰiːt̚³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thi-thiet
  - Hakka Romanization System: ti tied`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ti⁴ tiad⁵
  - IPA: /tʰi⁵⁵ tʰi̯et̚²/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dê-tiék
  - IPA ^(key): /ti²⁴²⁻⁵³ ^(tʰ-)liɛʔ²⁴/
Min Nan
- (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/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: di thiq (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /d̻i²² tʰi̯ɪʔ⁴⁴/

地鐵

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.

Dialectal synonyms of 地鐵 (“subway; metro”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		地鐵
Mandarin	Beijing	地鐵
Mandarin	Taiwan	捷運, 地鐵, 地下鐵
Cantonese	Guangzhou	地鐵
	Hong Kong	地鐵
	Taishan	地鐵
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	捷運
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	捷運
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	捷運
	Dongshi (Dabu)	捷運
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	捷運
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	捷運
Min Dong	Fuzhou	地鐵
Min Nan	Xiamen	地鐵
	Quanzhou	地鐵
	Zhangzhou	地鐵
	Taipei	捷運, 地鐵
	Chaozhou	地鐵, 地下鐵
Wu	Shanghai	地鐵