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Kanji Detail for 京 - "capital"

京

  • Meaning

    京 means "capital." Also associated with high, grand.

    1. Capital - The seat of government; the center of a nation.

    2. High - Large; flourishing. Also, a high hill.

    3. Anxious - Worried; concerned.

    4. Number name - Ten thousand times a trillion.

  • Words using 京

    • 京都 きょうと Listen Kyoto (city, prefecture)
    • 北京 ペキン Listen Beijing (China); Peking
    • 東京証券取引所 とうきょうしょうけんとりひきじょ Listen Tokyo Stock Exchange; TSE
    • 中京 ちゅうきょう Listen Nagoya (city); Chūkyō metropolitan area (most of Aichi, and parts of Gifu and Mie prefectures; centered around Nagoya); Chūkyō region
    • 在京 ざいきょう Listen being in the capital (i.e. Tokyo, or formerly Kyoto)
    • 上京 じょうきょう Listen going (up) to the capital; going to Tokyo
    • 帰京 ききょう Listen returning (home) to Tokyo; returning to the capital

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    • Verified meaning: capital
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read おさむ, かなじり, かなどめ, からぐり)
    • Also carries these associations: high, grand

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 京

    Given names 京(おさむ)Listen 京(きょう)Listen 京(けい)Listen 京(たかし)Listen

    Surnames 京(かなじり)Listen 京(かなどめ)Listen 京(からぐり)Listen 京(きよう)Listen 京(きょうざき)Listen 京(きょうじ)Listen 京(きょお)Listen 京(けいじ)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    capital; 10**16

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    capital city

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Jing; Jing ethnic minority; abbr. for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    capital city

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Great; large. The place where the emperor resides is called 京師, meaning the place is large and populous. Today the seat of central government is also called 京.

  • Onyomi

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    kei(ケイ) ケイ

    kin(キン) キン

    kyoh(キョウ) キョウ

  • Kunyomi

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    miyako(みやこ) みやこ

  • Strokes

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    8 strokes

  • Radical

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    亠 (nabebuta・keisankammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    capital high grand anxious hill number name capital city metropolis kyoto tokyo imperial city

Sentences including 京

  • In comparison with tokyo , london is small.

  • I have stayed in kyoto for three days.

  • He will reach kyoto the day after tomorrow.

  • He entered tokyo university this spring.

  • Are you going to go to tokyo tomorrow?

  • He came to tokyo at the age of three.

  • I went as far as kyoto by train.

  • He started from tokyo for osaka by car.

  • Kyoto is visited by many tourists.

  • I was born in kyoto in 1980.

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