港鐵

Chinese

		harbour; Hong Kong (abbrev.)	iron
trad. (港鐵)		港	鐵
simp. (港铁)		港	铁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Gǎngtiě

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄤˇ ㄊㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong² tit³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Gǎngtiě [Phonetic: gángtiě]
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄤˇ ㄊㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Gǎngtiě
    • Wade–Giles: Kang³-tʻieh³
    • Yale: Gǎng-tyě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Gaangtiee
    • Palladius: Ганте (Gante)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gong² tit³
    • Yale: góng tit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong² tit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong² tid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ³⁵ tʰiːt̚³/

Proper noun

港鐵

1. MTR: Short for 香港鐵路／香港铁路 (Xiānggǎng Tiělù, “Mass Transit Railway, rapid transit railway system of Hong Kong”).

Usage notes

Commonly used in formal situations e.g. news, but less commonly used among citizens. Usually, the terms 地鐵／地铁, 火車／火车 (“East Rail Line”), and 西鐵／西铁 (“West Rail Line”) (referring to the network before merger of MTR and KCR) are used.