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京

capital
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingキョウ、ケイ、キン
Kun readingみやこ
JōyōGrade 2
  1. imperial capital (esp. Kyoto)
  2. final word of an iroha poem
  3. 10^16
  4. 10,000,000,000,000,000
  5. ten quadrillion

Popular Usage

上京帰京

Radicals and components

Radical亠lidComponents

Mnemonic (RtK)

ⓘ

tall · top hat (亠) · mouth (口) · small (小) · little (小)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 334

Compound words

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

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 京

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