铁是一种金属。

Iron is a metal.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 铁 Tiě surname Tie
=1 铁 tiě
  1. iron (metal)
  2. arms
  3. weapons
  4. hard
  5. strong
  6. violent
  7. unshakeable
  8. determined
  9. close
  10. tight (slang)
=2 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=2 是 shì variant of 是 shì
3 一种 yīzhǒng one kind of; one type of
4 金属 jīnshǔ metal

classifier: 種